ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,905, issued on April 8, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).
"Plug-in connector with authentication feature" was invented by Dean Drake (Oklahoma City), Melissa Fritz (Rudy, Ark.), Raheel Chaudhry (Dallas), Rajendra R. Pai (Bangalore, India) and M. Deepan Ponraj (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a plug-in connector including a housing having at least two contact terminals received in adjacent terminal receiving cavities. An electric identification device is arranged in the housing and adapted to simultaneously contact the at least two terminals. The electric identification device i...