ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,861, issued on June 9, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Keigo Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (10) is provided with an inner module (11) including a plurality of terminal groups (22) to be respectively connected to a pair of electrically conductive paths (71) and each having a pair of terminals (60), and an outer housing (12) for accommodating the inner module (11). The outer housing (12) includes only one accommodation chamber (84) for accommodating ...