ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,857, issued on June 9, was assigned to Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).
"Card edge connector with compact, robust latch" was invented by Jun Fan (Chengdu, China) and Tao Zeng (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card edge connector with a latch non-removably retained to a housing so as to improve the connector's reliability. The housing has a slot elongated in a longitudinal direction and is configured to hold conductive elements. Each conductive element has a contact portion exposed in the slot configured for mating with an electronic component, and a tail portion extending out of the hous...