US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on Dec. 30 for "System and method to determine quality of termination of wire using thermal characteristics" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,639, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"System and method to determine quality of termination of wire using thermal characteristics" was invented by Matthew Orlowski (Harrisburg, Pa.) and Eric Broadaway (Middletown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire terminating system and method which allows for determining the quality of a wire termination. The method includes: terminating the terminal to the wire; monitoring the thermal data of the termination of the terminal to the wire with one or more thermal sensors; and comparing the monitored thermal data to stored thermal data to determi...