ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,808, issued on April 21, was assigned to HARTING ELECTRONICS GMBH (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Push-pull plug with lock" was invented by Marc Genau (Lubbecke, Germany) and Alexander Ellermann (Hunteburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug is provided which has a main body and a sliding element, the sliding element encompassing the main body and being arranged thereon so as to be movable along a plugging axis of the plug, the plug having a blocking element which is arranged on the sliding element so as to be rotatable between an open position and a locked position, the axis of rotation of the blocking element being perpendicular...