US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on July 7 for "Spring clip and connector for a flat flexible cable" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,435, issued on July 7, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Spring clip and connector for a flat flexible cable" was invented by Christopher Raybold (Middletown, Pa.), John Mark Myer (Middletown, Pa.) and RYan David Hetrick (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring clip has a first beam and a second beam connected to the first beam. The second beam is resiliently deflectable toward the first beam from a relaxed position distal from the first beam to a compressed position proximal to the first beam. The second beam has a spring latch disposed at an end of the second beam and extending toward the...