US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 4 for "Cable with abnormality precursor detection function and electric wire abnormality precursor detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,952, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cable with abnormality precursor detection function and electric wire abnormality precursor detection device" was invented by Hirokazu Komori (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Higashikozono (Osaka, Japan), Fujio Sonoda (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Murata (Mie, Japan) and Kenta Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable with an abnormality precursor detection function includes: one or more target electric wires each including a corresponding one of electr...