ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,464, issued on April 21, was assigned to HARTING ELECTRONICS GMBH (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Contact spring with clamping opening for a conductor or cable" was invented by Torsten Wolf (Luebbecke, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electric conductor connection element with a contact part and a contact spring which has a base part that is supported against a counter bearing and a clamping part that can be elastically deflected, is angled relative to the base part, and together with the contact part forms a clamping opening for an electric conductor. The invention is characterized in that the base part of ...