US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 14 for "Wiring member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,193, issued on April 14, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wiring member" was invented by Daichi Fukushima (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Hirai (Mie, Japan), Housei Mizuno (Mie, Japan), Miyu Aramaki (Mie, Japan), Tetsuya Nishimura (Mie, Japan) and Junichi Shirakawa (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring member includes a sheet material including a first layer formed into a sheet-like shape and a second layer provided on a main surface of the first layer, and a wire-like transmission member fixed on the sheet...