ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,246, issued on July 28, was assigned to KABA LABS INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Break-away connector for data and electricity" was invented by Karl Burkett (Austin, Texas), Christopher Wolfe (Newmarket, N.H.), Christopher Brown (Haverhill, Mass.) and Marcus Van Kommer (Madbury, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method for a break-away connector for data and/or electricity. In some cases, the break-way connector has two halves, where one half is inserted into the second half. The half inserted into a mating half may comprise a pair of external housing O-rings. These O-rings provide a way to adjust the force required to separ...