US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, ADIENT US on July 14 for "Wire harness routing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,291, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and ADIENT US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Wire harness routing device" was invented by Tomoka Shida (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Kazuyoshi Ohara (Osaka, Japan), Minho Yang (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness routing device is for routing a wire harness under a sliding seat. The wire harness routing device includes an extra length storing case and a protector. The extra length stori...