US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on Oct. 7 for "Electrical switching element with status indicator and kit for such an element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,946, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Electrical switching element with status indicator and kit for such an element" was invented by Titus Ziegler (Berlin), Oliver Steeg (Bensheim, Germany) and Michael Gudith (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical switching element includes a housing, an armature moved by a coil arrangement, a contact arrangement switchable by the armature into at least two switching statuses, and a magnetic field sensor outputting a magnetic field-dependent switching signal representing the switching statuses. The armature, the contact arra...