ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,514, issued on March 31, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Electrical connector" was invented by Andreas Urbaniak (Munster, Germany), Uvaraj Ganesan (Chennai, India), Rainer Schmidt (Nuremberg, Germany) and Kavinraj Vadivel (Salem, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes a connector housing and a U-shaped lever, comprising a crossbar and two sidebars extending from the ends of the crossbar. A pair of first gear wheel elements. Each one of the first gear wheel elements is integrally formed at respective ends of the sidebars and are rotatable around a pair of first rotati...