ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,937, issued on March 24, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Connector and electronic device" was invented by Munenobu Yoshida (Yamato, Japan) and Yo Kitamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (10) is mounted on a circuit board (CB1) and is to be mated with a connection object (50). The connector (10) includes an insulator (20) and multiple contacts (40). The insulator (20) includes two side walls (21b) and has a rectangular shape. The contacts (40) are attached to the side walls (21b). The contacts (40) each include a mounting portion (41), a resilient portion (43), and a contacting portion (46)...