ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,522, issued on May 13, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Housing for an electronic circuit which is arranged on a printed circuit board" was invented by Adrian Homutescu (Iasi, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for an electronic circuit comprises tub-shaped lower and upper parts and a rectangular printed circuit board, PCB. The lower part comprises PCB supports and molded position fixing formations on opposite inner walls and first parts of latching apparatuses, for connecting to the upper part, on opposite outer walls. The formations positionally fix the PCB by engaging int...