ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,534, issued on July 7, was assigned to LOTES Co. LTD (Keelung, Taiwan).
"Fluid connector" was invented by Lei Wan (Guangzhou, China), Chih-Kun Chen (Keelung, Taiwan) and Wen-Cong Zhang (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid connector includes a second pin accommodated in a first pin. Prior to mating of the fluid connector and a complementary connector, a front end of the first pin protrudes forward out of the pin hole, the second pin is located within the pin hole, and a front end of the second pin is accommodated in the accommodating slot. When the fluid connector is mated with the complementary connector, the compl...