ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,133, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wiring member" was invented by Housei Mizuno (Osaka, Japan), Kyousyou Kou (Osaka, Japan), Miyu Aramaki (Osaka, Japan), Junichi Shirakawa (Mie, Japan), Ryo Aragaki (Mie, Japan) and Daichi Kagawa (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring member includes a twisted wire in which a first wire-like transmission member and a second wire-like transmission member are stranded and a base member to which the twisted wire is fused and fixed. Each of the f...