US Patent Issued to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai), TE Connectivity Solutions, TE Connectivity Italia Distribution on Aug. 11 for "Connector having a terminal locking structure" (Chinese, Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,408, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai), TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and TE Connectivity Italia Distribution S.R.L. (Turin, Italy).

"Connector having a terminal locking structure" was invented by Yongjia (Winter) Wang (Shanghai), Liang Zhang (Shanghai), Subhash Maheshbabu (Bangalore, India), Federico Lupo (Turin, Italy) and Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing having a latch and a terminal mounted in the housing. The terminal has a locking hole with a locking hole front portion in a terminal insertio...