US Patent Issued to Sennheiser electronic on Jan. 20 for "Adapter system for fastening accessory parts to a hot shoe" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,944, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG (Wedemark, Germany).

"Adapter system for fastening accessory parts to a hot shoe" was invented by Lars Heine (Schwulper, Germany), Tobias von Allworden (Aumuhle, Germany), Jorg-Peter Thormann (Stadthagen, Germany), Ralf Kittmann (Zurich, Switzerland), Stefan Buckmann (Burgdorf, Germany), Hjordis Haaker (Hannover, Germany) and Dirk Engelking (Isernhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-shoe adapter system is provided for fastening accessory parts to a hot shoe. The hot-shoe adapter system has a hot-shoe adapter with a first side for fastening in a h...