ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,735, issued on May 5, was assigned to BorgWarner US Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"High current printed circuit board mount terminal for magnetic or leaded components" was invented by Alexandre M S Reis (Westfield, Ind.), Bryan Alan Rohl (Westfield, Ind.) and Thomas Alan Degenkolb (Noblesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal for a printed circuit board includes a body and a plurality of leads extending from the body at an angle between 180 degrees and 90 degrees relative to a horizontal plane of the body, each lead of the plurality of leads being configured to: mate with a corresponding mounting location on the p...