US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on July 8 for "Connection assembly for a connector socket" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,174, issued on July 8, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connection assembly for a connector socket" was invented by Alexis Mettavant (Pontoise, France), Imad Smirani (Pontoise, France) and Xavier Rouillard (Pontoise, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes an electrical connection terminal electrically connectable to a pin of a connector socket, the electrical connection terminal including a connecting portion and a crimping portion, and a ring assembled around the connecting portion. The crimping portion receives and crimps an electrical cable to be connected with the pin...