US Patent Issued to Enplas on July 14 for "Socket and inspection socket" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,041, issued on July 14, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Saitama, Japan).

"Socket and inspection socket" was invented by Rui Zhi Law (Singapore) and Ryuichi Kaneko (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A socket includes: a base portion that includes a first and a second base portions both electrically conductive and assembled so as to overlap each other in an upper-lower direction, the base portion being provided with a through hole penetrating through the first and the second base portions in the upper-lower direction; and a contact pin that is inserted into the through hole, in which the base portion holds the contact pin thr...