US Patent Issued to Leviton Manufacturing on March 24 for "Electrical connectors with integral fault detection and indication" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,962, issued on March 24, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Electrical connectors with integral fault detection and indication" was invented by Eugene Frid (Great Neck, N.Y.), Constantin Diac (Glen Cove, N.Y.), John Garbarino (Freeport, N.Y.), Vikramsinh P. Bhosale (Westbury, N.Y.) and Michael Calamita (Hampton Bays, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical connectors with integral fault detection are provided. The connectors are adapted to be coupled to AC multi-phase electrical cables, and can include a plurality of phase contacts, a detector, and an indicator. The phase contacts include a firs...