US Patent Issued to Connector Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Intrinsically safe electrical connector" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,502, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Connector Technologies Pty Ltd (Malaga, Australia).

"Intrinsically safe electrical connector" was invented by Shane Ballingall (Malaga, Australia), Jose De Andrade (Malaga, Australia), Richard Kabzinski (Malaga, Australia), Karl Rosewarne (Malaga, Australia) and Ryan Willis (Malaga, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrical connector (10) comprising supply side and load side housings (12) and (30 that are connectable by means of female socket (22) and male plug (32). The connector (10) includes an AC input (14) with input protection (18) for receiving an AC supply (16), a...