ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,771, issued on April 14, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Minden, Germany).

"Sensor device for an electrical terminal arrangement, electrical terminal arrangement, electrical terminal block, switchgear cabinet and read-out device" was invented by Sascha Kulas (Hannover, Germany), Ulrich Hempen (Minden, Germany), Burkhard Niemann (Hille, Germany), Thomas Holm (Rinteln, Germany), Michael Meyer (Hille, Germany) and Fabian Schwamborn (Loehne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device for a terminal block arrangement including at least one sensor for measuring a physical quantity of the terminal block arrang...