US Patent Issued to Geotab on Feb. 10 for "Splitter harness for vehicles with a proprietary interface port connector" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,196, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Splitter harness for vehicles with a proprietary interface port connector" was invented by Thomas Arthur Walli (Hamilton, Canada) and Jimmy Joe Pasquin (Woodbridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splitter harness includes a main harness segment having a first multi-wire harness connector and a second multi-wire harness connector at both ends thereof, an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) port harness segment having an OBD port connector at an end thereof, a signal splitter, and a power signal provider for providing power to the OBD port connector. A method of in...