ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,228, issued on July 28, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Connector device including conductive portion" was invented by Yasunori Asano (Mie, Japan) and Yutaka Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector device (A) is provided with a pair of circuit boards (11, 21) including board transmission paths (13, 23) and arranged to face each other, a pair of connectors (14, 24) to be mounted on the pair of circuit boards (11, 21), a plurality of adapters (60) including relay outer conductors (63) an...