ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,528, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Connector and connector assembly" was invented by Jiaoyong (Mac) Liu (Shanghai), Jie (Roger) Luo (Shunde, China), Hongqiang (Sean) Han (Shanghai) and Rong (Summer) Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector adapted to electrically connect a first bus bar and a second bus bar includes an insulating housing having a first hole and a slot at an end of the insulating housing, a conductive terminal provided within the insulating housing and in electrical contact with the second bus bar inserted into the slot, and a conductive pin...