US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on May 27 for "Connecting apparatus and also assembly and electronic device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,062, issued on May 27, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Connecting apparatus and also assembly and electronic device" was invented by Martin Boeddeker (Detmold, Germany) and Kevin Berghahn (Blomberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting apparatus for connecting a current-carrying element to a rail element includes: a receiving body on which the current-conducting element is fastenable, the receiving body having a first transverse side and a second transverse side opposite the first transverse side, and a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side opposite the first longitu...