ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,882, issued on June 2, was assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Osamu Hashiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accommodating step accommodates a plug contact assembly into an injection mold in such a way that the plug contact assembly is supported at both ends in the injection mold by using two supporting parts. An insert molding step molds a plug housing integrally with the plug contact assembly by insert molding in such a way that a coupling beam of the plug contact assembly is between two width side surfaces and separated from the two w...