ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,815, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Electromagnetic relay" was invented by Jun (Tod) Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Hailin (Timothy) Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a housing, an insulator, static terminals, and movable terminals. The housing has a top wall and a bottom opening that are opposite in a height direction, a front sidewall and a rear sidewall that are opposite in a front and rear direction, and a left sidewall and a right sidewall that are opposite in a left-right direction. The insulator is arranged in the housing and...