ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,367, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG (Espelkamp, Germany).
"Contact element for printed circuit board plug connector" was invented by Jana Buttemeyer (Rahden, Germany), Gert Havermann (Wallenhorst, Germany), Marc Genau (Lubbecke, Germany) and Dieter Rose (Rahden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric contact element for use in a printed circuit board plug connector is formed with at least two opposing narrow faces and at least two opposing wide faces. At least one narrow face is designed to be used as a contact surface in order to be brought into an electrically conductive connection w...