US Patent Issued to NEUTRIK on Feb. 11 for "Electrical plug connector with guide features and central and outer insertion openings" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,514, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NEUTRIK AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Electrical plug connector with guide features and central and outer insertion openings" was invented by Oliver Dobler (Tschagguns, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical plug connector has a housing, in which at least one insertion opening and at least one guide for a complementary plug connector with at least one electrical contact pin are arranged. At least one contact element that is elastically deflectable out of the path of the contact pin is mounted in the housing and at least partially protrudes into the insertion opening when the comple...