ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,958, issued on June 10, was assigned to H & B ELECTRONIC GMBH & Co. KG (Deckenpfronn, Germany) and FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Connection assembly" was invented by Tobias Morlok (Motzingen, Germany), Jan Bayerbach (Calw, Germany) and Bernhard Brunner (Erlabrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection assembly for the electrical and mechanical connection between a contact electrode and an electrical conductor element has a flexible sensor/electrode section in which the contact electrode is at least partially arranged. The connection assembly has at least one electrical i...