ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,496, issued on April 21, was assigned to ACES ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Combination of electrical plug connector and matching electrical socket connector" was invented by Chu-Cheng Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Hua Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of electrical plug connector and matching electrical socket connector includes a plug connector, a sliding seat, a buckle assembly, a draw belt, and a socket connector. When the plug connector is docked with the socket connector, the supporting spring leaves of the buckle assembly support down to the holder base of the plug connector, so tha...