US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Connector assembly and related methods" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,683, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connector assembly and related methods" was invented by Kevin Turner (Vienna, Ohio), Rangarajan Sundarakrishnamachari (Royapettah, India) and Abhaya Kishore (Nagercoil, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a connector body, a lock member, and an inner housing. The connector body includes a plurality of walls and an inner portion. The plurality of walls define a cavity configured to receive a terminal. The inner portion is disposed within the cavity. The lock member is removably-disposed within the cavity and def...