ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,226, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS. LTD (Mie, Japan) and UMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Integrated module of electrical apparatus and wire harness, and wire harness" was invented by Hideaki Ito (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Miyawaki (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Takenaka (Osaka, Japan) and Housei Mizuno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated module of an electrical apparatus and a wire harness includes: an electrical apparatus including a heat generation component; and a wire harness including a wiring extending from the electrical apparat...