ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,420, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH (Minden, Germany).

"Housing of an electrical plug connector and electrical plug connector" was invented by Torben Oberhommert (Porta Westfalica, Germany) and Rudolf Mastel (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing of an electrical plug connector, which has the following features: at least one plug chamber, accessible from a plug face of the plug connector, into which a mating plug connector designed as the mating piece for the plug connector may be inserted; four circumferential walls, which surround at least the plug chamber on the circumferenti...