US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 24 for "Terminal block" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,311, issued on June 24, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal block" was invented by Toshiya Hirooka (Yokkaichi, Japan), Daisuke Hashimoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Jisung Kim (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sunghyun Byun (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kan Murai (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Yasuhiro Kudo (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal block that is to be provided on a housing of a device that is to be mounted on a vehicle, the terminal block including: a seating that is to be fixed to the housing so as to close a...