ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,013, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Shielded electrically conductive cable connector" was invented by Yusuke Kojima (Mie, Japan), Atsushi Murata (Mie, Japan) and Kazuaki Hamada (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielded electrically conductive path is provided with a shield terminal including an inner conductor and an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, a shielded cable including a core wire fixed to a rear end part of the inner conductor, a braided wire surrounding...