ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,790, issued on March 11, was assigned to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Plug-in connector element with locking device" was invented by Marian Benzin (Hille, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug-in connector element with a locking device (14) for releasably locking on a plug partner (12), wherein the locking device has a plurality of locking hooks (16, 18) which are distributed on the circumference of a main body (10) and which are detented at a front end in the plug-in direction and are pivotable in a radial direction between a locking position and a release position, characterized in that the loc...