ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,951, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Plug-in connector and plug-in connector arrangement for simplified manufacturing" was invented by Markus Drews (Steinheim, Germany), Karsten Krome (Detmold, Germany) and Thomas Kaps (Vlotho, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug-in connector for connecting to a mating plug-in connector includes: a contact receiving body, in which at least one contact element for connecting to a mating contact element of the mating plug-in connector is received; a cable receiving body connected to the contact receiving body, in which a cable for connect...