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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2022
Applicant:
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mikkel Nielsen, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Michael Hogan, Dublin, CA (US);
Assignee:
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/631 (2006.01); H01R 13/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/631 (2013.01); H01R 13/5845 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and/or method embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, of an expandable overmold for a device connector such as an HDMI or USB-C connector. An example embodiment of the overmold includes an expandable connector body, an expansion mechanism for expanding the connector body, and a tensioning mechanism for applying tension to one or more surrounding device connectors connected to other ports of the computing device.