ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,991, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SWIDGET Corp. (Kingston, Canada).
"Configurable electrical receptacles" was invented by Donald Lowell Misener (Kingston, Canada) and Christopher Adamson (Kingston, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to configurable electrical receptacles and more particularly to electrical receptacles that accept in-situ replacement of an insert providing a specific functionality within an electrical receptacle which is configurable to function or user accessible feature."
The patent was filed on April 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/296,847.
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