ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,062, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Connector assembly" was invented by Darshan R. Kasar (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel C. Wagman (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Joshua A. Mendoza (Lancaster, Calif.), Christopher S. Graham (San Francisco), James C. Wu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Varun K. Sanghvi (San Francisco) and Muhammad F. Hossain (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, pin contacts, and a retainer. The receptacle housing has a convex wall portion, a concave wall portion, a first side wall portion that extends between the convex wall portion a...