US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Connector assembly with terminal position assurance and blocking feature" (Indian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,520, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connector assembly with terminal position assurance and blocking feature" was invented by Arturo Casares Valdes (Saltillo, Mexico), Eduardo Daniel Alvarez Valdez (Saltillo, Mexico), Roberto Narro (Saltillo, Mexico), Rangarajan Sundarakrishnamachari (Chennai, India), Siddhan Manickam (Salem, India), Dineshkumar Manoharan (Chennai, India) and Elias Vazquez (Saltillo, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a connector body having a terminal cavity, a terminal lock configured to secure the terminal within the terminal ...