ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,876, issued on July 14, was assigned to Onanon Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Resistive heating wire termination system" was invented by Dennis J. Johnson (Milpitas, Calif.), Keyon Keshtgar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Michael J. Juri (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire termination system includes a heat applicator device to apply resistive heating to a specific connector pin of an electrical connector for the soldering of a wire to the connector pin. In operation, a wire of a cable is inserted into an interior cavity of the connector pin and resistive heating is applied to the connector pin resulting in the melting of solde...