ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,918, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Clamping body and connecting terminal for an electric conductor" was invented by Roland Fuerholzer (Amberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping body formed from an integral sheet-metal punched part by bending processes, wherein the sheet-metal punched part has a central portion, upon which a spring arm portion is arranged on a first side and a contact-pressure surface portion on a second side, and, starting from the central portion, the spring arm portion is divided into a first part and an adjoining second part with a free end, where the first part is bent u...