ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,993, issued on March 24, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Fastening device, method, arrangement and switchgear cabinet" was invented by Christian Kloppenburg (Bueren, Germany), Reiner Busse (Bielefeld, Germany) and Wjatscheslaw Janzen (Detmold, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening device for fastening a DIN rail to a wall includes: at least one fastening element having a wall fastening portion for fastening the fastening element to the wall, and a DIN rail fastening portion for fastening the fastening element to the DIN rail. When in a fastened state, the DIN rail fastening portion is...