US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany, TE Connectivity Italia Distribution on Oct. 7 for "Dual connector with spring and insulation displacement connection (IDC) terminals" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany) and TE Connectivity Italia Distribution S.r.l. (Turin, Italy).

"Dual connector with spring and insulation displacement connection (IDC) terminals" was invented by Stanislas Di Maggio (Turin, Italy), Marcello Farinola (Turin, Italy), Alessandro Genta (Collegno, Italy) and Dominik Heiss (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector for grounding a multicore cable having a shield includes a spring terminal engaging the shield and an insulation displacement connection (IDC) terminal terminating a ground wire. The shield is g...