ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,456, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MIKUNI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric device including static-removing grounding path" was invented by Kei Yasugahira (Iwate, Japan) and Rui Yoshida (Iwate, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric device includes: an electric part 50, operating electrically; a housing body 10, being conductive and accommodating the electric part; a holder cover 20, covering the electric part accommodated in the housing body, being non-conductive and bonded to the housing body to hold a portion of the electric part; and a circuit substrate 70 disposed on an outer side of the holder cover and mounted with a cont...