US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Lamp-housing assembly with axially and radially aligned and electrically coupled elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,470, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lamp-housing assembly with axially and radially aligned and electrically coupled elements" was invented by Christian Hirn (Waldbronn, Germany) and Christoph Keppler (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamp-housing assembly includes a lamp seat with a first contact member, a lamp with axially opposite first and second electric terminals, and a lamp cap with a second contact member. The lamp is insertable into the lamp seat. The lamp cap is mountable on the lamp seat and the inserted lamp. Inserting the lamp into the lamp seat est...