US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on July 14 for "Electrical connector assembly having floating mating interface" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,316, issued on July 14, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Electrical connector assembly having floating mating interface" was invented by Christian Perry Brandt (York, Pa.) and James Michael Raudenbush (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes an electrical connector having a housing and a contact held in a contact channel and terminated to a cable. The housing has a contact retention latch latchably coupled to the contact. The electrical connector includes a TPA device coupled to the housing and movable between a preset position and a set position. The contact retentio...