ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,509, issued on May 26, was assigned to STAUBLI ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS AG (Allschwil, Switzerland).
"Electric contact, in particular flat contact or bifurcated contact" was invented by Reto Stori (Allschwil, Switzerland), Andreas Linder (Roschenz, Switzerland), Andrea Mastrovito (Munchenstein, Switzerland) and Aurelien Hell (Ligsdorf, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric contact has a first conductive element, an electric connection element for contacting the first element, and a holding element for holding the connection element on the first element, in which a recess is provided. At least one holding element is provided w...