ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,126, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).
"Low profile wire connector" was invented by Jian Hua Li (Bayside, N.Y.) and Krishna Patel (Granger, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides descriptions of configurations for wire connectors used to splice low voltage electrical conductors or to splice high voltage electrical conductors. The wire connectors may be coupled to form a wire connector assembly. Each wire connector includes a base, a cover, a first cover coupling assembly and a second first cover coupling assembly. The base has an upper wall and a lower wall and can be divid...