US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions, Tyco Electronics UK on July 29 for "Electrical connector having a latching slider" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,827, issued on July 29, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions Gmbh (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics UK Ltd (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Electrical connector having a latching slider" was invented by John Marsh (Swindon, Great Britain), Vinayakumar Shettar (Middletown, Pa.) and Ramesh S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes a housing having walls forming a cavity that receives a mating electrical connector. The walls include a base wall, side walls, and end walls. The base wall includes contact channels. The first side wall includes a slider slot open to the cavity. The ele...