ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,916, issued on May 13, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector assembly having improved locking elements" was invented by Shan-Ling Fu (Kunshan, China), Hou-Quan Liu (Kunshan, China), Xiao-Juan Lin (Kunshan, China) and Chun-Hsiung Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board connector includes a first housing including a base and two sidewalls, plural first terminals retained in the base and located between the two sidewalls, and a first metallic shell enclosing the first housing and ...