US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS on June 30 for "Flexible printed circuit board, wiring module, flexible printed circuit board including terminal, and power storage module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,241, issued on June 30, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS INC. (Shiga, Japan).

"Flexible printed circuit board, wiring module, flexible printed circuit board including terminal, and power storage module" was invented by Hideo Takahashi (Mie, Japan), Shinichi Takase (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Shimoda (Mie, Japan), Tsutomu Kitajima (Shiga, Japan), Yoshiro Adachi (Shiga, Japan), Yuuki Oohashi (Shiga, Japan) and Manabu Sudou (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed ...