ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,081, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electrical connector verification system" was invented by Christopher Dillon (Clarkston, Mich.), Wuhua Yang (Superior Township, Mich.), Jeffrey D Kucera (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Dalong Gao (Rochester, Mich.) and Xiang Zhao (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector verification system including a microphone for detecting a first sound generated by an engagement of a locking mechanism of an electrical connector and for generating a first signal representative of the first sound, a processor for generating a control signal ...