ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,596, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Conductive terminal" was invented by Chunjie Hu (Shanghai), Tongbao (Tim) Ding (Shanghai), Yongjian (Justin) Huang (Shanghai) and Thomas Klenner (Bensheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive terminal includes a first pair of clamping arms forming a first clamping portion for connecting with a wire, and a second pair of clamping arms connected to the first pair of clamping arms by a connecting part. The first clamping portion has a first clamping sub-portion and a sec...