ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,270, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Connector assembly" was invented by Che-Yuan Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ya-Li Xu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a cage having at least one inserting passageway and a heat sink frame positioned above the inserting passageway, the heat sink module is assembled to the heat sink frame, the heat sink module includes a movable plate, a heat sink, a pressure-applying spring and a supporting spring; the movable plate has a pushed portion which enters into the inserting passageway, the pressure-applying spring is pr...