ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,165, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Voss Automotive GmbH (Wipperfurth, Germany).
"Plug connector with mounting protection" was invented by Alexander Oberdorfer (Radevormwald, Germany) and Eugen Heinrichs (Bergneustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector having a base element with a through channel fluidically connected to an end of the base element formed as a sleeve section. A clamp cage is inserted into a receptacle channel of the sleeve section and axially held in a positive-locking manner. Two retaining arms of a retaining clip project into a through opening of the clamp cage in a rest state and are elasticall...