ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,665, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Vibration-proof electrical high-current flat socket contact device" was invented by Caio Carvalho (Bensheim, Germany), Kevin Scheer (Bensheim, Germany), Harald Ulrich (Bensheim, Germany), Maik Schaefer (Bensheim, Germany), Stefan Masak (Bensheim, Germany) and Holger Stange (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical flat socket contact device includes a contact chamber, a plurality of electrical contact springs arranged in the contact chamber, and a mechanical retaining spring arranged in the contact chamber separately fro...