ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,110, issued on July 8, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection structure between flexible substrate and bus bar, wiring module and electricity storage module" was invented by Takahiro Sunaga (Mie, Japan), Hiroomi Hiramitsu (Mie, Japan) and Yuto Sato (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection structure between a flexible substrate and a bus bar includes: a flexible substrate; a plurality of bus bars; and a connection piece, in which the flexible substrate is formed by being covered by a plurality...