ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,149, issued on April 15, was assigned to NISHIKAWA RUBBER Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kiriya, Japan).

"Protector with sensor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Yoichiro Sasaki (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Hayashi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Wataru Hattori (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first end of an insert fills up a space of a hollow part of a protector, and a second end includes an insulator to insulate a first wire connection part where a first leg of a resistor is piled on a first core wire from a second wire connection part where a second leg of the resistor is piled on a second co...