ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,930, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Chikara Ito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector has a housing having a bottom wall; and a plurality of terminals. A lower side surface of the bottom wall in the top-bottom axis has a first region and a second region divided into two by a center of gravity plane including a center of gravity. The first region has a facing region that faces the connecting member when the connecting parts of the plurality of terminals is mounted on the connecting member, and the second region is a n...