ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,508, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Conductive terminal and electrical connection assembly" was invented by Xiaozhi (George) Fu (Shanghai), Wei Zhang (Shanghai), Dingbing (Frank) Fan (Shanghai) and Wei (Rock) Lv (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive terminal includes a fixing portion mechanically fixing and electrically connecting to a circuit board, a floating portion elastically connected to the fixing portion and capable of moving relative to the fixing portion, and an elastic clip connected to the floating portion and having a clamping portion clamping and electr...