US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 6 for "Cable with abnormality sign detection function and wire abnormality sign detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,864, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cable with abnormality sign detection function and wire abnormality sign detection system" was invented by Hirokazu Komori (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takahiro Murata (Yokkaichi, Japan), Fujio Sonoda (Osaka, Japan), Masato Izawa (Osaka, Japan) and Takumi Ooshima (Kanuma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable with an abnormality sign detection function and a wire abnormality sign detection system that can perform stepwise detection of signs leading to breakag...