ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,653, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wangs Alliance Corp. (Port Washington, N.Y.).

"Junction box" was invented by DunPing Hu (Blaine, Minn.), Thomas Roberti (Hauppauge, N.Y.), Renyun Li (Dongguan, China) and Linhong Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Junction apparatus for providing power to a fixture is provided. The apparatus includes a housing having a first end that is configured to house a line power termination and a second end that is configured to house a load power termination. The first and second ends, or, alternatively, a longitudinal axis of the first end and a longitudinal axis of the second end, or, ...