ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,869, issued on June 9, was assigned to Phoenix Contact Asia-Pacific (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Connector outer housing" was invented by Rui Wang (Nanjing, China), Min Che (Nanjing, China) and Lili Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector outer housing is provided, which comprises a first opening at a tail end and a second opening at a connection end, the first opening is for wire entrance and the second opening is to form a connection relationship with a mating connector outer housing, wherein a elastic lock arm is provided on an operating surface of the connector outer housing and comprises a locking...