ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,019, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical power connector assembly" was invented by Pascal Menard (Villepreux, France) and Rama Krishna Manne (Guntur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer for maintaining one or more wires during a molding process, the spacer having an external frame, and a plurality of spring curved leaves. Each spring curved leaf has a fixed end attached to an inner face of the external frame and a free end. The free ends of the plurality of spring curved leaves are arranged to flexibly wrap the one or more wires."

The patent was filed on May 3,...