US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on May 6 for "Legible confirmation of mated connection system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,184, issued on May 6, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Legible confirmation of mated connection system" was invented by Bart N. Caldwell (Farmington, Ohio), John D. Schneider (Warren, Ohio), John G. Kountz (Poland, Ohio) and Michael J. DeMonica (Cortland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a first housing having an indicium imprinted thereon and a movable member movable from a first position configured to render the indicium illegible to an optical scanning device to a second position configured to render the indicium legible to the optical scanning device. The indiciu...