US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity India, Tyco Electronics UK, TE Connectivity Services on Nov. 18 for "Low insertion force contact terminal" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,407, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TE Connectivity India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India), Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. (Swindon, Great Britain) and TE Connectivity Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Low insertion force contact terminal" was invented by Vinayakumar Shettar (Bangalore East Tulak, India), John Marsh (Swindon, Great Britain) and Lawrence John Brekosky (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low insertion force contact terminal which has a conductor mating portion, a securing portion and a substrate mating portion. The conductor mating portion is configured to terminate a conductor therein. The securin...