ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,246, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Component attachment system with primary and secondary locking features" was invented by Erick Adrian Rodriguez Acosta (Fracc Quintas del Valle, Mexico) and Naiki Alejandra Reynoso Galvan (Sterling Heights, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for attaching a first component, e.g., a first housing component of an electrical assembly, to a second component, e.g., a second housing component of the electrical assembly includes a locking ramp and a first secondary lock attached to the first component. The first secondary lock has a first pl...