US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Controlled extraction of electronic connector from electronic connector board" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,357, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlled extraction of electronic connector from electronic connector board" was invented by Theron Lee Lewis (Rochester, Minn.), Timothy P. Younger (Rochester, Minn.), David J. Braun (St. Charles, Minn.), James D. Bielick (Pine Island, Minn.), John R. Dangler (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen Michael Hugo (Stewartville, Minn.) and Timothy Jennings (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlled extraction of an electronic connector from an electronic circuit board includes a press mechanism of a device positioned in spaced rela...