ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,328, issued on July 14, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Electrical connector with fixed housing, floating housing, elastic terminal mounted therein and electrical connector assembly using the same" was invented by Xue-Hai Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector and an electrical connector assembly include an insulative fixing seat, an insulative floating seat floatingly mounted thereabove, a floating terminal and a conductive shell. The fixing seat has a terminal fixing groove which extends horizontally. The floating seat has an insertion hole, an outer wall having an annular groove. The float...