US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on June 17 for "Reconfigurable connector system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,693, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Reconfigurable connector system" was invented by James Morrison (Sebringville, Canada), Lyall K. Winger (Waterloo, Canada) and Agustin Velazquez Mejia (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable connector system for distributing power between an input power source and a cable harness connector having M cable harness terminals includes an energy center module (ECM) and a connecting adapter. The ECM has a module housing, a PCB having more than M pin holes, a plurality of e-fuses connected with the pin holes, a controller connected...