US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Connector with integrated pin protection mechanism" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,855, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Connector with integrated pin protection mechanism" was invented by Abdikarim Hussein (Rochester, Minn.), Sarah K. Czaplewski-Campbell (Rochester, Minn.), Brittany McPeek (Rochester, Minn.), Megan Kasabian (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Lidiya Zewdie (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector structure that includes a housing, at least one pin located within the housing, and a moveable protection plate located within the housing, and moveably connected to the housing. The moveable protection plate includes at least one opening through w...