ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,585, issued on July 1, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Arrangement jig for wire harness and system for part manufacturing" was invented by Takahiko Katsuramaki (Makinohara, Japan) and Taku Furuta (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided an arrangement jig for a wire harness and a system for part manufacturing including: a plurality of blocks having a connector receiving unit that receives connectors of a wire harness; and a retaining unit that defines and retains a mutual positional relation between the plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks have placement forms that are selectively deformable ...