US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions, Tyco Electronics UK on July 15 for "Terminal which makes direct wire-to-wire or wire-to-mating surface connection" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,503, issued on July 15, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Terminal which makes direct wire-to-wire or wire-to-mating surface connection" was invented by John Marsh (Swindon, Great Britain) and Vinayakumar Shettar (Mechanicsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal and a method for terminating a wire. The terminal incudes a wire support member having a wire securing portion and a wire contacting portion. The terminal also includes a wire positioned in the wire support member that has a contact section which is positioned in the w...