ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,771, issued on July 8, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Composite cable" was invented by Hirotaka Eshima (Tokyo), Fumihito Oka (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Hayakawa (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Murayama (Tokyo) and Takahiro Futatsumori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite cable includes a plurality of internal cables and a covering member covering peripheries of the plurality of internal cables. At least one of the plurality of internal cables includes at least one electric wire having a conductor, a first sheath covering a periphery of the at least one electric wire, a shield covering a periphery of the first sheath, and a second she...