ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,511, issued on May 26, was assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China) and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electrical connector with an improved terminal module" was invented by Xia Zhao (Kunshan, China), Jian-Kuang Zhu (Kunshan, China) and Xiao-Gao Yang (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: a housing defining a mating cavity opening forwards and a receiving cavity opening rearwards; a terminal module including an insulator and a pair of terminals, the insulator including an upright portion and a horizontal portion; the term...