US Patent Issued to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Electrical connector with terminal modules and frame having module bays for customizable input/output configuration" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,661, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical connector with terminal modules and frame having module bays for customizable input/output configuration" was invented by Justin Kopelos (Niles, Ohio), Daniel Vernon (Youngstown, Ohio), Abhaya Kishore (Nagercoil, India) and Sivakumar Jogula (Achampet, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal module includes a housing defining a cavity configured to receive an electrical terminal within and a primary terminal lock configured to releasably retain the electrical terminal after it is fully inserted within the cavity. The termin...