ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,958, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Connecting terminal and a connecting assembly" was invented by Bo (Leo) Chen (Shanghai) and Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a connecting terminal for connecting a wire, including: a body; a clip portion extending from both sides of the body and configured to hold a conductor of a wire; and a fixing part extending from both sides of the body, including: a clamping part configured to clamp an insulating layer of the wire; and a stopping part formed on the clamping part and configured to...