US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 24 for "Wire harness and wire harness with base member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,402, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wire harness and wire harness with base member" was invented by Tomoka Shida (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Masami Ono (Osaka, Japan) and Yuuta Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wire harness includes a base harness having a plurality of electric wires and a protective member. The plurality of electric wires branch into three or more branch lines inside the protective member, and are kept flat by the protective memb...