ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,610, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Electronic device and contact element for use in an electronic device" was invented by Steffen Pfortner (Springe, Germany) and Peter Berg (Schlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for mounting on a support rail, has a housing, an electronic unit arranged in the housing, and an elastic contact element that serves in the electrically-conductive connection between the electronic unit and the support rail. The contact element has two contact legs, a connecting area connecting the contact legs to one another, and a con...