ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,988, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle electrical interconnection system" was invented by David R. Peterson (Aurora, Ohio), Joseph Sudik Jr. (Niles, Ohio), Jared Bilas (North Bloomfield, Ohio), Kurt P. Seifert (Cortland, Ohio), David G. Siegfried (Warren, Ohio), Lee Bauer (Birmingham, Mich.), Christian Schaefer (Bochum, Germany), Magnus Svensson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Martin Bornemann (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrified vehicle electrical systems and formatting methods include arranging a first layer including one or more first electrical transm...