ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,655, issued on May 27, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Kunshan League Automechanism Co. Ltd. (Kunshan, China).

"Flexible flat cable manufacturing system and method, and flexible flat cable" was invented by Zhonghua Xu (Shanghai), Dandan (Emily) Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuting He (Kunshan, China) and Haidong Wu (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible flat cable manufacturing system comprises a tape conveying device conveying an adhesive tape along a first direction, and a wire conveying ...