ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,955, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd. (Suzhou, China) and Tyco Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Connector and connector assembly" was invented by Jianlin Huang (Suzhou, China), Feng (Carlos) Pan (Suzhou, China) and Weiguo (Vic) Sun (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector comprises a housing adapted to be mounted on a mounting panel and a terminal fixed within the housing. The housing includes a body, a base formed on a bottom of the body and a tongue protruding from the bottom of the base. The base is adapted to be fixed on one side of the mounting panel. A first p...