US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Sept. 8 for "Insulated feed-through connector" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,728, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Insulated feed-through connector" was invented by Tadeusz Andrew Gajda (Homer Glen, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed-through electrical connector configured to connect electrical components from an exterior to an interior of a vehicle, including a stud having a bottom end and a top end, the stud being formed from an electrically conductive material, an insulation disposed about the stud, the insulation configured to be placed in a hole of a roof of the vehicle and connect to the roof of the vehicle, a ring terminal connection disposed a...