ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,042, issued on July 14, was assigned to XINGR TECHNOLOGIES (ZHEJIANG) Ltd. (Yiwu City, China).

"Socket assembly" was invented by Choon Leong Lou (Singapore) and Ho-Yeh Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a socket assembly thereof. The socket assembly includes a body, a plurality of shield components and a plurality of retractable probes. The body has a plurality of through holes and a plurality of recesses. The through holes accommodate the retractable probes. At least one recess is formed between any adjacent two through holes. The shield components are inserted in the recesses."...