ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,289, issued on July 22, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Cable screw-connection system" was invented by Tobias Schlueter (Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany) and Antje Skowranek (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable gland system for arrangement on a housing wall includes: a guide element with an opening for receiving a cable, a first support surface for supporting on a first side of the housing wall and a first end region, and an opposite second end region, at least one external thread being arranged at least on a periphery of the first end region; and a fastening element wi...