ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,860, issued on May 6, was assigned to Auto-Kabel Management GmbH (Hausen i. W., Germany).

"Flat conductors connected by a flexible conductor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Oliver Scharkowski (Guben, Germany), Marie Redder (Ebnat-Kappel, Switzerland) and Kabelo Sebetlela (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical conductor comprising a flat conductor formed of a solid metallic material, the flat conductor having at least two opposite broad sides, two opposite narrow sides and two opposite end sides and having an at least quadrangular cross-sectional profile, and a flexible conductor formed of a plurality ...