ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,423, issued on March 18, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany) and TE Connectivity Nederland BV (s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

"Contact arrangement for a connector, connector" was invented by Jeroen Jozef Maria De Bruijn ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Wijnand Van Gils (s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Martin Szelag (Bensheim, Germany), Peter Dirk Jaeger (s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Ulrich Buchmann (Bensheim, Germany), Franz Mueller (Bensheim, Germany) and Nick Ottenbros (s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact arrangement for a connector includes a plurality of contact ele...