ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,447, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical connection box" was invented by Ryo Muroi (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Kuboki (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Isaji (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connection box includes a housing and a busbar attached to the housing. The housing includes a shared fuse mounting portion on which at least two fuses including large and small fuses of mutually different sizes are to be mounted. The fuse mounting portion includes: a large input-si...