ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,320, issued on July 14, was assigned to Anker Innovations Technology Co. Ltd. (Changsha, China).

"Connection devices, cable plugs, and cable assemblies" was invented by Tao Chen (Hunan, China) and Xiang Zhang (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a connection device, a cable plug, and a cable assembly. The connection device comprises a housing (e.g., shell) and several wire-insertion components. The housing has a placement cavity and an insertion port, and several wire-insertion components are set in the placement cavity. The wire-insertion components are used to fix one end of the cable and connect w...