ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,512, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Connection assembly, connection clamp and electronic device" was invented by Martin Gebhardt (Lage, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection assembly for connecting an electrical conductor includes: a current bar; a clamping spring having a holding leg and a clamping leg, the electrical conductor being clampable against the current bar by the clamping leg in a clamped position of the clamping spring; and an actuating element guidable along an actuation direction and by which the clamping spring is transferrable from the clamped posi...