ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,251, issued on July 7, was assigned to CHANGCHUN JETTY AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changchun, China).

"Method for producing wire harness using additive manufacturing, and wire harness" was invented by Chao Wang (Changchun, China) and Yun Miao (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a wire harness, including Step S10: arranging a plurality of wire harness conductors; and Step S20: forming an insulator by additive manufacturing, gaps being disposed between the wire harness conductors, and the insulator wrapping the wire harness conductors and being filled in the gaps."

The patent was filed on July 15...