US Patent Issued to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. on Nov. 11 for "Printed circuit board connector having hermaphroditic contact elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,002, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG (Espelkamp, Germany).

"Printed circuit board connector having hermaphroditic contact elements" was invented by Jana Buttemeyer (Rahden, Germany), Gert Havermann (Wallenhorst, Germany), Arno Westpfahl (Espelkamp, Germany) and Marc Genau (Lubbecke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angled printed circuit board connector is suitable for connecting at least one circuit board to at least one additional circuit board or at least one corresponding circuit board connector. It comprises a housing, at least two contact elements which are arranged in pairs and ha...