ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,720, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MELECS EWS GMBH (Siegendorf, Austria).

"Contact pin, support board and electrical machine" was invented by Leopold Hellinger (Ziersdorf, Austria), Philipp Neumann (St. margarethen an der Sierning, Austria), Thomas Kulawik (Vienna), Herbert Nemeth (Vienna) and Michael Kafer (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to create favorable structural conditions, at least one first component longitudinal portion and a second component longitudinal portion are provided, where the first component longitudinal portion has a greater level of rigidity than the second component longitudinal portion, s...