ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,164, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to REICHLE & DE-MASSARI AG (Wetzikon, Switzerland).
"Plug connector device" was invented by Matthias Gerber (Ruti, Switzerland), Thomas Graf (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland), Peter Hollenstein (Wagen, Switzerland) and Hans Andres (Hinwil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug connector device, in particular an RJ plug connector device, has a plug connector unit which is configured to create a plug connection extending along a plugging direction and which comprises a contact unit with at least two electric plug contacts, wherein the plug connector device includes a cable receiving unit compris...