US Patent Issued to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. on Oct. 14 for "Printed circuit board connector having hermaphroditic contact elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,867, issued on Oct. 14, 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), Marc Genau (Lubbecke, Germany) and Arno Westpfahl (Espelkamp, Germany).

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