ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,442, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical connection box" was invented by Kenichi Mitani (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connection box (1) including: a metal casing (10); a positive busbar (30) housed in the casing (10); and a negative busbar (20) housed in the casing (10), and formed so as to surround the positive busbar (30)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 15, 2021, under Application No. 18/031,146.

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