ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,406, issued on May 13, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Wiring member" was invented by Shintaro Sumida (Mie, Japan), Motohiro Yokoi (Mie, Japan), Kenta Ito (Mie, Japan), Suguru Yasuda (Mie, Japan), Tetsuya Nishimura (Mie, Japan), Hitomi Harada (Mie, Japan), Haruka Nakano (Mie, Japan), Ryusuke Kudo (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Hirai (Mie, Japan), Housei Mizuno (Mie, Japan) and Hidetoshi Ishida (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring member includes: a flat wiring member including a plurality of terminal part...