ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,665, 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 junction box" was invented by Issei Horiba (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Fujimura (Osaka, Japan) and Masato Tsutsuki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical junction box includes a circuit board, a branch circuit assembly for distributing power to various devices, a housing that accommodates the circuit board and the branch circuit assembly, and a board-side connector module in which a plurality of board-side connectors mounted on the...