US Patent Issued to KOLLMORGEN on June 17 for "Strain relief plug for lead wires on a printed circuit board" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,658, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOLLMORGEN Corp. (Radford, Va.).

"Strain relief plug for lead wires on a printed circuit board" was invented by Jeffery Todd Brewster (Dublin, Va.), William Edward Anderson IV (Blacksburg, Va.), Tyler William Wood (Radford, Va.) and Elizabeth Cantando (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain relief plug to restrict movement of wires on a printed circuit board, the strain relief plug having an elongated stem along a vertical axis of the strain relief plug. The strain relief plug has an in-board flange defined by the elongated stem, the in-board flange configured to seat in a bore...