ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,324, issued on July 14, was assigned to MICROPOWER GROUP AB (Vaxjo, Sweden).

"Connector system and safety sleeve for such a system" was invented by Johan Assow (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden), Johan Svedendahl (Vallingby, Sweden) and Goran Johansson (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Connector system (1) comprising a first connector (2), a second connector (3) and a safely sleeve (4), where the safety sleeve (4) locks the first connector (2) to the second connector (3), where the connectors (2, 3) comprise protruding catches (109, 110, 201, 202) and the safety sleeve (4) comprises openings (306, 308, 310, 312) arranged on resilie...