ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,049, issued on May 27, was assigned to DEHN SE (Neumarkt i.d.OPf., Germany).
"Pluggable device combination for protecting against surges" was invented by Uwe Strangfeld (Neumarkt, Germany), Stefan Schon (Neumarkt, Germany), Georg Wittmann (Neumarkt, Germany) and Richard Daum (Neumarkt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pluggable device combination for protecting against surges, having a socket-like bottom part of U-shaped cross section for receiving at least one plug module which accommodates a surge protection element, latching means which act between the plug module and the socket-like bottom part be...