ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,935, issued on April 8, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing rectangular conducting wire" was invented by Hideharu Ushida (Kariya, Japan), Michiharu Ikeda (Kariya, Japan), Takaya Yamazaki (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ono (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a rectangular conducting wire wherein insulating coating of rectangular conducting wire is removed by applying laser light the insulating coating, four planar portions on exterior of rectangular conducting wire are sequentially defined as a first, second, third, and fourth face portion, second corner portion is de...