ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,821, issued on April 22, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Device installation system, related tools, and methods" was invented by Ladislaus Kehl (Ottobrunn, Germany), Thomas Schoepf (Ottobrunn, Germany), Kathryn Marie Maher (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) and Daniel Ferreira Ribeiro (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a device installation system. The system includes a device having a wireless communication tag that stores device identification information and torque information for installing the device via a threaded fastener. The system further inclu...