ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,972, issued on June 10, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for manufacturing terminal-equipped electric wire" was invented by Kenzo Tanaka (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a terminal-equipped electric wire includes a step of crimping a first terminal to one end of an electric wire, a step of crimping a second terminal to the other end of the electric wire with a tubular seal member, a first waterproofing step of providing, at the one end of the electric wire, an anticorrosion member that covers an element wire bundle of the electric wire, and a second waterproofing step of provid...