ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,732, issued on March 11, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wiring module and power storage module" was invented by Hideyuki Kuboki (Mie, Japan), Hiroomi Hiramitsu (Mie, Japan), Xueqing Dong (Mie, Japan), Masato Tsutsuki (Mie, Japan) and Yuto Sato (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring module is configured to attach to a power storage element group of an arranged plurality of power storage elements, each one of the power storage elements including an electrode terminal, including a bus bar that conn...