ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,721, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Minden, Germany).

"Conductor terminal and set formed of conductor terminal and actuating element" was invented by Henry Stolze (Bad Frankenhausen, Germany), Max Boettcher (Ebeleben, Germany) and Silvio Lobing (Worbis, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductor terminal having a terminal housing with a locking device for snapping the terminal housing onto a DIN rail, wherein the locking device has a first locking foot that can be elastically displaced relative to the terminal housing, which has a recess for holding an actuating element with which the fir...