ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,220, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Board connector having outer conductor attached to connector housing" was invented by Masanao Yamashita (Osaka, Japan), Toshifumi Ichio (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Okamoto (Osaka, Japan), Maika Ido (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Hiramatsu (Osaka, Japan) and Taiga Kadoyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board connector to be connected to a circuit board including an electrically conductive path is provided with a connector housing to be connected to a m...