ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,310, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector" was invented by Yasuaki Ito (Tokyo) and Masaki Imamura (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a busbar including a base portion in a strip plate shape and a plurality of tab terminals extending from a predetermined position in a longitudinal direction of the base portion; and a housing including a busbar accommodation room in which the busbar is accommodated, wherein the busbar accommodation room includes a pair of plate portions for sandwiching and holding the base portion, the pair of plate portions are provided with a first pr...