US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on March 3 for "Electrical terminal with secondary sacrificial contact beam" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,705, issued on March 3, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical terminal with secondary sacrificial contact beam" was invented by Brian Keith Weaver (Middletown, Pa.), Andrew B. Fortier (Middletown, Pa.), William James Moyer II (Selinsgrove, Pa.) and David Patrick Orris (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical terminal having a mating portion having at least one primary contact beam and at least one sacrificial contact beam. The at least one primary contact beam has a contact width. The at least one sacrificial contact beam having a recess provided in line with the ...