ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,063, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BIZLINK INTERNATIONAL CORP. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Latch and connector" was invented by Yanping Zhang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Qixing Xu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Haoran Zou (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a latch and a connector. The latch includes a handle and two baffles. The baffles are disposed on opposite ends of the handle, and opposite to each other. Each baffle includes a main body and a metal sheet. A front end portion of the main body is recessed with pivoting and locking portions, the main body has first and second openings, ...