US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Electrical connector having terminal position assurance device" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,247, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Electrical connector having terminal position assurance device" was invented by Christian Perry Brandt (Middletown, Pa.) and John Wesley Hall (Harisburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity extending between a mating end and a cable end. The housing has contact channels extends along channel axes. The electrical connector includes a contact assembly received in the cavity having contacts received in the corresponding contact channels. Each contact has a retention feature. The electrical connec...