US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on July 14 for "Peripheral seal with sloped ribs" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,322, issued on July 14, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Peripheral seal with sloped ribs" was invented by Melani Cindric (Middletown, Pa.), David Swartz (York, Pa.) and Vinayakumar Shettar (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed panel mount electrical connector and a seal for use in an electrical connector. The seal includes a base member and projections. The projections extend from the base member. Each of the axes of the projections extending at an angle of greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees relative to a longitudinal plane of the base member."

The patent w...