US Patent Issued to Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) on March 24 for "Electrical connector and power terminal" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,940, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Electrical connector and power terminal" was invented by Chao Zou (Chengdu, China) and Yanming Cheng (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes conductive terminals arranged to contact pads of a card inserted into the electrical connector. Each conductive terminal includes tiers of fingers configured to contact the card. The tiers of fingers include at least an outer tier of outer fingers and an inner tier of inner fingers. The outer tier may be parallel to the inner tier and may be paralle...