US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on Feb. 4 for "Method for configuring an electrical contact zone on/in a terminal, and electrical terminal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,473, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Method for configuring an electrical contact zone on/in a terminal, and electrical terminal" was invented by Jochen Brandt (Woert, Germany), Isabell Buresch (Woert, Germany), Thomas Steinacker (Woert, Germany), Ruediger Meier (Bensheim, Germany) and Christian Bergmann (Woert, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring an electrical contact zone of a terminal includes providing the terminal having a contact portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the terminal, forming a contact dome having a radius in the contact port...