ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,162, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Connector and connector assembly" was invented by Qi Feng (Shanghai), Yuchen Yang (Shanghai), Ziwei (Vivi) Li (Shanghai) and Xiao (Nichee) Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector comprises a housing in a form of a bent tube. The housing includes a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, and a bent portion connected between the first tubular portion and the second tubular portion. The first tubular portion and the second tubular portion extend at an angle of more than 0 degree and less than 180 degrees relative to each ...