US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 7 for "Cantilever contact support using memory metal structure" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,439, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cantilever contact support using memory metal structure" was invented by Anjali Kalpesh Kumar (Rochester, Minn.), Theron Lee Lewis (Rochester, Minn.), Abdikarim Hussein (Rochester, Minn.) and Timothy Jennings (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector structure is provided including a cantilever contact with a memory metal support that provides for improved cantilever contact mating. In one embodiment, the electrical contact structure includes cantilever beam having a contact portion for engaging a pin structure ...