ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,697, issued on May 19, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd. (Suzhou City, China), Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Connection terminal, finger protective cap, connection terminal assembly, cable assembly, and charging seat" was invented by Jinshun (Jet) Wang (Suzhou, China), Fangyue (Jason) Zhu (Shanghai), Han Wu (Suzhou, China), Ming Xu (Suzhou, China), Jian Yang (Suzhou, China), Jianwen (Gerry) Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Weidong Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A finger protective cap for fitting on an installation part at an end o...