ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,690, issued on May 19, was assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Board-to-board connector" was invented by Osamu Hashiguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector according to the present disclosure includes a housing, and a plurality of contacts held in the housing. When a direction in which an input-output board and a CPU board are opposed to each other is called a board opposing direction, each contact includes a holding part, a connecting part, and a spring part. The holding part is extended in a board opposing direction and is held on a housing by press fitting. The spring part includes a conta...