ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,785, issued on March 25, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Identification strip, marking system and method" was invented by Thomas Polker (Detmold, Germany), Joachim Jacke (Bad Driburg, Germany) and Heinz Reibke (Bad Salzuflen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identification strip for an electrical installation, -having a marking area that is designed to be printed by way of a pressing device, -having a clamping area that is designed to engage in a fastening groove, wherein the marking area and the clamping area comprise a first plastic, characterized in that-the marking area and/or the clampi...