ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,274, issued on July 22.
"Connector processing machine" was invented by Kellen Haile (Middletown, Pa.), Sun Kyu Pak (Harrisburg, Pa.), Craig S. Roper (Mount Joy, Pa.), Edward T. Price III (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), David D. Wiltraut (Palmyra, Pa.) and Swapnilsinh Solanki (Harrisburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector processing machine includes a feeder mechanism having a housing track for supporting connector housings between a loading zone and a punching zone. The feeder mechanism includes a feeder rail and a carriage sliding along the feeder rail by a feeder actuator between a pickup position and a drop off position. The fe...