ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,134, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automated assembly sensor cable" was invented by Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Yassir Abdul-Hafiz (Irvine, Calif.), William Jack MacNeish III (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Kevin Forrest (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated assembly sensor cable has a generally wide and flat elongated body and a registration feature generally traversing the length of the body so as to identify the relative locations of conductors within the body. This cable configuration facilitates the automated attachment of the cable to an op...