ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,874, issued on June 2, was assigned to HARTING ELECTRONICS GMBH (Espelkamp, Germany).

"Printed circuit board arrangement" was invented by Marc Genau (Lubbecke, Germany) and Rainer Bussmann (Bad Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board assembly is provided having a first printed circuit board with at least two contact openings, at least two printed circuit board contact elements, each of which has a plug end and a connection end, the plug end being plugged into the contact opening in the first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board with at least two contact openings, wherein the connection en...