US Patent Issued to Bollhoff Verbindungstechnik on June 17 for "Coupling bolt of a plug-in coupling, first component with the coupling bolt, associated plug-in coupling and connecting structure of two components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,774, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bollhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Coupling bolt of a plug-in coupling, first component with the coupling bolt, associated plug-in coupling and connecting structure of two components" was invented by Heinrich Heinrichs (Vlotho, Germany) and Waldemar Wedel (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling bolt includes a connecting portion with which the coupling bolt is fastenable to or in a first component, and a shaft extending from the connecting portion and defining a longitudinal axis of the coupling bolt. The shaft has a pre-fixation portion and a fastenin...