US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 4 for "Service hole cover and door wiring module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,301, issued on March 4, was assigned to AUTONETWORKKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Service hole cover and door wiring module" was invented by Koji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Housei Mizuno (Osaka, Japan) and Megumi Ishida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a service hole cover covering a service hole formed in an inner panel in a vehicle door panel, the service hole cover including: a cover body part covering the service hole; and at least one catching part provided to protrude from the cover body part to a side of ...