ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,424, issued on March 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fixing structure of wiring member and wiring member" was invented by Hirotaka Kato (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Hirai (Mie, Japan), Makoto Higashikozono (Mie, Japan), Kosuke Sone (Mie, Japan) and Hirokazu Komori (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing structure of a wiring member includes: an electrical wire bundle; an exterior member externally mounted to the electrical wire bundle; and an adherend having a main surface as a flat surface, wherein t...