ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,310, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector system" was invented by Masanao Yamashita (Osaka, Japan), Toshifumi Ichio (Osaka, Japan), Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Mie, Japan), Maika Ido (Mie, Japan), Hidekazu Matsuda (Mie, Japan), Kazuki Hiramatsu (Mie, Japan) and Taiga Kadoyama (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector system (1) is provided with a cable-side connector (10) to be connected to an end part of a cable (11) and a plurality of types of board-side connectors (110, 210) to be...