US Patent Issued to Auto-Kabel Management on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for processing an electrical conductor" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,234, issued on June 17, was assigned to Auto-Kabel Management GmbH (Hausen i.W., Germany).

"Method and apparatus for processing an electrical conductor" was invented by Marie Redder (Wil, Switzerland), Urszula Bitner (Berlin) and Kabelo Sebetlela (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for processing an electrical conductor, in which a bare conductor end of a stranded conductor is provided, the strands of the bare conductor end are gripped at least partially circumferentially by gripping jaws, the strands are at least partially compacted in the region of the conductor end by the gripping jaws, and the compacted strands are weld...