US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on May 26 for "Connector arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,518, issued on May 26, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Connector arrangement" was invented by Christoph Kosmalski (Bensheim, Germany), Maximilian Veihl (Bensheim, Germany), Florin Spataru (Bensheim, Germany) and Markus Eckel (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical plug connector and a mating plug connector. The electrical plug connector includes a connector housing, and a housing interlock element movable relative to the connector housing between a pre-latched position and a final latched position. The housing interlock element include...