ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,198, issued on July 8, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).

"Coupling system for establishing an electric connection" was invented by Rainer Schutz (Neresheim, Germany) and Marco Toneatto (Heidenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling system establishes an electric connection between two electric components. The first component is positioned in a housing and includes at least one busbar, and the second component is disposed outside the housing and includes at least one current connection. An electrically conductive connection can be established between the busbar and the current connection by the co...