ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,854, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of fixing housing" was invented by Kento Mori (Tokyo) and Nobuo Yokomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are included: a step of adjusting, on a surface of a base plate, the position of a housing which is made of a resin and is placed on the base plate so as to partially cover that base plate, to an extent that a contact portion of the housing with the base plate is kept straddling a groove that is formed on the surface of the base plate and has a width smaller than a width of the contact portion; a step of heating the base plate or the con...