ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,295, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Modular fuel cell system architecture and harness" was invented by Scott A. Friedman (Dallas), Luke A. Rippelmeyer (Plano, Texas), Christopher M. Bulpitt (Los Angeles), Laura E. Bower (Whitmore Lake, Mich.), Arlo C. Eitzer (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan J. Sander (Greenville, Ohio) and Daniel K. Lim (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to modularizing a device. In various embodiments, the harness in provided that accommodates many different configurations of the modules. The harn...