ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,498, issued on April 21, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Connector device having housing and first and second terminals held on housing" was invented by Yuya Yoshihara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector device includes a housing, a plurality of first terminals, and a plurality of second terminals. First contact portions provided in the first terminals are arrayed at predetermined intervals in a first butting surface of the housing in a state of being contactable with second partner terminals of a partner connector device when the connector device is connected to the partner conne...