ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,547, issued on July 15, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wire harness" was invented by Kenzo Arai (Nasukarasuyama, Japan) and Atsushi Suzuki (Nasukarasuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wire harness, a frame includes a partition wall. The partition wall includes a locking part that locks a joint connector housed in a sectioned space part from an opening part on the lower side. When an electronic component block is being fixed to a frame by a fixing part, the locking part is positioned on the lower side than the electronic component block is and isolated from the electronic component block in the orthogonal directi...