ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,138, issued on July 21, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connection assembly and method for producing a connection assembly" was invented by Manuel Eheim (Bensheim, Germany), Patrick Distler (Bensheim, Germany), Bjoern Hoffmann (Bensheim, Germany), Ron Buchholz (Bensheim, Germany) and Marcus Wolf (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection assembly includes a busbar made of a first metallic material, where busbar comprises a hole; a contact element which is arranged in the hole in busbar and is made of a second metallic material; where the outer diameter of the part of co...