US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on Feb. 3 for "Circular plug connector with anti-rotation mechanism" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,408, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Circular plug connector with anti-rotation mechanism" was invented by Alex Robert Rengifo (Oceanside, Calif.), Mikayla J. Garvin (Morrisville, N.C.) and James Friedhof (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circular plug connector includes a plug shell having a cavity, a plug insert received in the cavity, and plug contacts held in the plug insert. The circular plug connector includes an outer coupling ring rotatable about the plug shell and having threads configured to be threadably coupled to a mating connector. The circular plug connec...