ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,143, issued on Oct. 6.

"Connector device" was invented by Takao Yamauchi (Machida-city, Japan), Sho Suzuki (Machida-city, Japan) and Yuki Miyazaki (Ogori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector device comprising a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises: a plurality of conductive first contacts; an insulating first contact holding portion holding the plurality of first contacts; a conductive partition wall partitioning the first contact holding portion into a first grouping area that holds two or more first contacts and a first individual area that holds one first contact; and a conductive first...