ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,950, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Wire harness" was invented by Kosuke Tanaka (Yokkaichi, Japan), Katsutoshi Izawa (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Ryuta Saito (Yokkaichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness that includes an electric wire; a first tube that is made of a metal and covers an outer circumference of the electric wire; a braided wire that is formed by braiding conductive strands into a tubular shape, is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first tube, and covers an outer circumference of a drawn-out portion of the electric wire, the drawn-out portion bei...