US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Connector assembly with device for adapting a terminal to a connector body and method of assembling same" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,934, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connector assembly with device for adapting a terminal to a connector body and method of assembling same" was invented by Rangarajan Sundarakrishnamachari (Chennai, India), Siddhan Manickam (Tamilnadu, India), Dale Smutny (Canfield, Ohio) and Duane Brantingham (Cortland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a connector housing defining a terminal cavity within, the terminal cavity having a first primary locking feature configured to retain a first terminal having a first retaining feature within the terminal cavity...