ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,516, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electrical plug connector with multiple lever systems for facilitating plugging and/or releasing and plug connector assembly therefor" was invented by Georg Wallensteiner (Gemmrigheim, Germany) and Vishwanath Kristappa Badami (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug connector to be plugged along a plug-in direction into a mating plug connector having a mating plug connector housing. The plug connector includes a plug connector housing; electrical contact elements, which are situated in the plug connector housing; a first lever system...