US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Wiring Systems on May 20 for "Power distribution box with a disabling circuit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,386, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Power distribution box with a disabling circuit" was invented by Eric Willard (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Vibhor Singh (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for disabling an electric device stuck in an active state. The circuit includes a first input for receiving a first actuation signal from an external device and a second input for receiving a second actuation signal from a microcontroller. An output path is connected to the first input and the second input and transmits the first actuation signal and the second a...