ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,710, issued on May 19, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Flexible electrical bus bar and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Nicholas A. Durse (Youngstown, Ohio), Steven W. Marzo (Cortland, Ohio), Jonathan D. Weidner (Conneautville, Pa.) and David R. Peterson (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical bus bar assembly includes an elongate flexible electrical conductor formed from a strip of electrically conductive material having a distal portion that defines two parallel tabs extending from the conductor, and an electrical terminal having two different parallel sides rec...