US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Wiring module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,457, issued on March 31, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Wiring module" was invented by Yuhei Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Hideo Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Hideaki Nakajima (Osaka, Japan) and Yuki Ohira (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring module that is to be mounted on power storage elements having electrode terminals includes a flexible board to be electrically connected to the electrode terminals, a connector connected to the flexible board, and a casing holdi...