US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on June 9 for "Terminal block assembly, substrate and method of manufacture thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,854, issued on June 9, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Terminal block assembly, substrate and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Andre Herdling (Lohrheim, Germany) and Petr Dusik (Idstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal block assembly for a power tool comprises a terminal block having at least one primary terminal configured for electrical connection with a battery and at least one secondary terminal in electrical connection with the at least one primary terminal. A substrate is mountable on the terminal block. The substrate has at least one first electrical connector electrica...