US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 4 for "Vehicle wiring system, optical coupler, and method of constructing vehicle wiring system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,387, issued on March 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle wiring system, optical coupler, and method of constructing vehicle wiring system" was invented by Yuto Ueno (Osaka, Japan) and Susumu Takeshima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle wiring system includes a plurality of functional units to be mounted in a vehicle, an optical transmission line that is wired between the functional units and configured to transmit an optical signal of the functional units, an electric wire harness that is provided, in a partial section of the optical transmission line, together with the op...