Sphero, Inc.

Medtronic, Inc.

Paul Rothman

Jeffrey D Sandstrom

Joel R Racchini

Susheel Deshmukh

Finn Olavi Rinne

Aya Bdeir

Devin Gosal

Stanley J Okrasinski

Antonio Hernandez

Sameer More

David Newton

Jordi Borras

John Perkins

Geoffrey Lipman

Julio Liriano

Edward Bear

Kristin Salomon

Andrew Tergis

Sean Schumer

David Sharp

Alin Cosmanescu

Philip Harrstad

In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first connector including a first housing portion having top and bottom surfaces and a second connector including a second housing portion having top and bottom surfaces. The second housing portion has a form factor substantially corresponding to a form factor of the first housing portion. A circuit board having top and bottom surfaces is permanently coupled to the first housing portion and to the second housing portion such that a first portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the first housing portion and a second portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the second housing portion. A contact assembly is coupled to the first housing portion and electrically and directly engages a portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board.

Modular electronic building systems and methods of using the same

In some embodiments, an electronic and digital building block system includes modular electronic building modules that can be electrically coupled together to create various different electronic devices. In addition to physical electronic modules, the system can include digital building blocks to further enhance and integrate the functions of an assembled bit-system that can be created/assembled by a user of the block electronic building system. The digital building blocks are not a physical module, but digital content or other software or cloud applications that can be represented as virtual digital blocks, and that can interface with the physical modules. The digital blocks can provide integration between the functionality of the physical building blocks and functionality of computer-based and/or web-based applications, programs and systems. The electronic and digital building block system can include a system program and a visualizer that can be viewed on the display of a computer device.

Modular electronic and digital building systems and methods of using the same

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Paul Rothman