ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,169, issued on July 21, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector contact module having a row of contacts with lower level segments offset from soldering tails thereof" was invented by Jie Su (Huaian, China) and Jun Zhao (Huaian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact module for an electrical connector includes: an insulator; and a row of contacts insert-molded with the insulator, each of the row of contacts including a soldering tail and a body having a securing portion and a contacting portion,...