ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,363, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).
"Connector assembly" was invented by John C. Laurx (Aurora, Ill.), Ronald Bradbery (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Joe Faia (Fox Lake, Ill.), Augusto P. Panella (Naperville, Ill.) and Daniel B. McGowan (Glen Ellyn, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector and a receptacle connector that can mate together. Conductive communication between the plug and receptacle connectors is established by mating signals terminals and mating ground terminals contained in terminal subassemblies accommodated in each connector. To align and su...