ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,241, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WEIDMULLER INTERFACE GMBH & Co. KG (Detmold, Germany).

"Connection strip and method of manufacturing the connection strip" was invented by Matthias Jost (Oerlinghausen, Germany), Christian Fuchs (Wutha-Farnroda, Germany), Tim Knauf (Eisenach, Germany), Peter Stuckmann (Lage, Germany) and Matthias Lammersen (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection strip is designed as a printed circuit board connector and has a strip-like connection housing, which is formed in one part or in a plurality of parts. The connection housing has a plurality of outer sides, the first outer side havin...