ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,379, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Latching system for establishing a latching connection between a printed circuit board and an edge-contact plug, printed circuit board, edge- contact plug and add-on part" was invented by Alexander Hansen (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a latching system, including a printed circuit board and an edge-contact plug, for establishing a latching connection between the printed circuit board and the edge-contact plug, including two retaining arms, each having a latch, the edge-contact plug including two mat...