ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,345, issued on June 23, was assigned to Advanced Connectek Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Mini type FAKRA connector" was invented by Jiaqi Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Qihui Zhu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Pin-Yuan Hou (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Jia Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a mini type FAKRA connector, which includes a metal housing, a plastic housing, a pin, and multiple terminals. The plastic housing is assembled to the metal housing, and a portion structure of the metal housing and a portion structure of the plastic housing are overlapped to form a tunnel. The pin is...