ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,652, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wire harness" was invented by Yusuke Ueta (Makinohara, Japan) and Yoshinao Sato (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness including: a shielded wire; a metal housing having a tubular body serving as a wire insertion path and being inserted into an outer wall body in a metal shield case, and a fixed part causing the tubular body to be fixed to the outer wall body; a tubular shield terminal being connected to a shield material; and an annular seal member disposed in the wire insertion path to fill an annular gap between the tubular body and the shielded...