ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,530, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).
"Clock spring assembly" was invented by Stefan Krapf (Flossenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock spring assembly includes a stationary housing and a rotor. The stationary housing and the rotor cooperatively define a chamber that accommodates at least one flexible ribbon cable (501) that is wound in a first rotational direction onto the rotor and fixed at one end to the rotor and at the other end to the stationary housing. The flexible ribbon cable is wound around the rotor (601) and establishes an electrical connection between the rotor and the st...