ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,079, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARB Corporation Limited (Kilsyth, Australia).

"Assembly for securing electrical wiring through a roof of a vehicle" was invented by Andrew Guy Menegazzo (Kilsyth, Australia), James Kenneth Robert Luke (Kilsyth, Australia), John Desmond Clark (Kilsyth, Australia) and Andrew Harry Brown (Kilsyth, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assembly 18 for securing a bundle of electrical wiring 26 through a roof 12 of a vehicle and a roof rack 10 for supporting a load relative to the roof 12. The roof rack 10 includes an elongate member 14 configured to support the load, one or more mounting mechan...