US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 11 for "Insulated electric wire and wiring harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,620, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Insulated electric wire and wiring harness" was invented by Kyoma Sahashi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Toyoki Furukawa (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Yoshitaka Yamada (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulated electric wire includes a flat portion and a low-flatness portion along an axial direction x, having elemental wires constituting a conductor and an insulation coating being continuous with one another. An outer shape of the conductor of the flat p...