ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,993, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Card edge connector including a flipped pin foot orientation" was invented by Xiang Li (Portland, Ore.), Shaohua Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kai Xiao (Portland, Ore.), Mo Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a card edge connector includes a housing including a slot to receive a first circuit board. A first plurality of pins extend from within the slot through a bottom of the housing. Each of the first plurality of pins includes a first end to mate with a corresponding contact of the first circu...