ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,178, issued on May 6, was assigned to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG (Espelkamp, Germany).

"High-power plug connection system" was invented by Denny Hellige (Bad Oeyenhausen, Germany), Walter Gerstl (Breitenfurt bei Wien, Austria) and Albert Ferderer (Espelkamp, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-power plug connection system has a cable connection housing for connecting at least two electric high-power plug connectors in order to transmit and/or distribute a high current strength and/or a high electric voltage. The cable connection housing receives at least two insulating bodies for receiving at least one respective hi...