US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH et al on July 1 for "Dead-end plugs for solar cables and related systems and methods" (Austrian, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,961, issued on July 1, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH et al (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Dead-end plugs for solar cables and related systems and methods" was invented by Daniel Ferreira Ribeiro (Holly Springs, N.C.), Frank Rosenkranz (Vienna), Kathryn Marie Maher (Cary, N.C.), Freddy Jean Philip Dendas (s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Matthew Schuster (Garner, N.C.) and Austin Draughn (Garner, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sealing a terminated solar cable, the system including: a solar cable; a connector terminating the solar cable, the connector including a locking feature; and a plug including a lo...