ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,356, issued on March 17, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method of assembling an electrical connector and an electrical connector" was invented by Duane Brantingham (Cortland, Ohio) and David R. Peterson (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling an electrical connector includes the steps of providing an insulated flexible flat cable having a plurality of electrical conductors, inserting the flat cable within a connector housing, inserting the flat cable within a terminal housing, attaching a plurality of electrical terminals to the plurality of electrical conductors, pull...