ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,845, issued on July 29, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Substrate for contacting at least one electrical pin of a charging inlet" was invented by Olivier Pamart (Pontoise, France), Bruno Dupont (Pontoise, France) and Romain Anselmini (Pontoise, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate for contacting an electrical pin arranged in a housing includes a base having a recess receiving the electrical pin, a metal leadframe having a contacting region electrically and/or thermally contacting the electrical pin, and a contact pin extending along a mating direction in a plane parallel to th...