ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,274, issued on July 7, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Methods and systems including leaf springs for a relay" was invented by Rishin Nair (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical relay is disclosed herein. The relay can include a first group of fixed and moving contacts arranged within a first assembly, a second group of fixed and moving contacts arranged within a second assembly, and a first magnetic device arranged between a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall of the first assembly and a second magnetic device arranged between first and second lateral walls of ...