ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,531, issued on June 3, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).
"Composite cable and composite harness" was invented by Yoshikazu Hayakawa (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Murayama (Tokyo), Hirotaka Eshima (Tokyo) and Takahiro Futatsumori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite cable includes a plurality of power lines, one signal line unit, and a sheath collectively covering the plurality of power lines and the one signal line unit. The signal line unit includes a plurality of pairs of signal lines, and an inner sheath covering a first assembled article. The first assembled article is formed by arranging the signal lines to be paired at ea...