ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,751, issued on May 5, was assigned to IRISO ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Connector with pair of terminals and coupling portion" was invented by Daisuke Noguchi (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroaki Yukutake (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board connector includes a pair of inner terminals. The board connector includes a terminal body. Further, the board connector includes a low-dielectric constant portion having a relative dielectric constant set to be lower than that of the terminal body and interposed between the intermediate extending portion of one of the inner terminals and the intermediate extending portion ...