ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,051, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT Corp. (Foxboro, Mass.).
"Integrated quick disconnect connector" was invented by Ashok Kumar Padmanabhan (Bangalore, India), Mohan Narasaiah (Bangalore, India), Sumandra Ghosh Chowdhury (Bangalore, India) and Rajeev Bammanni (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable connector includes a slide coupled to a spring to bias the slide from a retracted position to an extended position and at least one latch coupled to the slide. The slide, when in the extended position, is configured to rotate the at least one latch to secure the at least one latch, and when in the ...