ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,877, issued on June 9, was assigned to HARTING ELECTRONICS GMBH (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Hermaphroditic circuit board plug connector" was invented by Marc Genau (Luebbecke, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to produce a circuit board plug connector in which the advantages of hermaphroditic plug connectors are combined with the advantages of conventional plug connectors, a contact carrier is equipped with both plug contacts of a first type and plug contacts of a second type in equal numbers. Advantageously, the plug contacts of the first type are designed as "male" contacts (blade contacts) and the plug contacts of the seco...