ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,878, issued on June 2, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT E-MOBILITY GMBH.

"Contact assembly for an electrical plug-in connector having a heat capacity element arranged on a contact element" was invented by Thomas Fuehrer (Blomberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact assembly for an electrical plug-in connector includes: at least one contact element having a first end region for connection to a corresponding plug-in connector, and a second end region, which faces away from the first end region and for connection to a load line; a heat capacity element arrangeable on the at least one contact element at least in regions; and ...