US Patent Issued to Kromberg & Schubert Automotive on Jan. 13 for "Electrical cable or electrical line configured with a plug-in contour for plugging directly into a mating plug" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,732, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Kromberg & Schubert Automotive GmbH & Co. KG (Renningen, Germany).

"Electrical cable or electrical line configured with a plug-in contour for plugging directly into a mating plug" was invented by Michael Knoedler (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Wolfgang Langhoff (Leonberg, Germany) and Markus Polt (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable or electrical line and a method for producing a plug-in contour at a line end of an electrical line, such as a stranded line. The method includes forming, in particular press-forming, the electrical line at the line end while creating a plu...