ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,325, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Weld positioning clip for encapsulation process" was invented by Michal Cieszynski (Cracow, Poland), Tomasz Slizowski (Cracow, Poland), Wojciech Lesniak (Cracow, Poland), Szymon Bak (Cracow, Poland) and Marek Manterys (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable clip for engaging around an exposed conducting core of a cable during an encapsulation process. The clip is formed as a rectilinear loop having an inner surface and an outer surface and opposed ends which define an opening in the loop therebetween by means of which the clip c...