ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,521, issued on March 31, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Connector assembly" was invented by Tsai-Hui Chien (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a shielding cage, a light guiding pipe and a base. The shielding cage has a plurality of walls and an accommodating space defined by the plurality of walls. The light guiding pipe is assembled to the shielding cage, the light guiding pipe has a light outputting end, a light inputting end and a first assembling portion at a location of the light guiding pipe adjacent to the light inputting end. The base has a light guiding pipe accommodat...