ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,938, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Yuichi Saito (Tokyo), Yukitaka Tanaka (Tokyo), Gota Kameyama (Tokyo), Yukiko Sato (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Kuribayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector comprises a housing, a terminal and a shell. The terminal has a held portion held by the housing, a first portion extending rearward from the held portion and a second portion extending forward from the held portion. The first portion has a connectable portion configured to be connected to a first object. The second portion has a resiliently deformable supp...