ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,682, issued on April 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Wire-body fixing member, wire-body-extension fixing member, and wire-body fitting method" was invented by Yuusei Onodera (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire body fixing member includes a first fixing member body that is fixed to an outer surface of a robot and that lashes a first wire body, and first protection members that respectively cover opposite end surfaces of the first fixing member body, the opposite end surfaces of the first fixing member body being disposed to protrude outward relative to an outer diameter of the first wire body in...