ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,489, issued on April 15, was assigned to HANWHA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Detonator connector having leg wire locking structure" was invented by Woo Young Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detonator connector having a leg wire locking structure is proposed. The detonator connector includes an upper casing member for opening and closing a lower casing member having a wiring bracket member positioned therein and into which a leg wire of a detonator or a bus wire is inserted, and between the wiring bracket member and an leg wire entrance of the lower casing member, a leg wire position locking part for fixing...