ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,517, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wiring component for electrical equipment" was invented by Yuki Hirose (Tokyo), Mitsuo Sone (Tokyo), Akifumi Shimono (Tokyo) and Taigi Okazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring component for electrical equipment comprises a plurality of bus bars, a housing made of resin in which the plurality of bus bars are each exposed at both ends and embedded inside at an interval to each other, and a hollow portion is provided in which an opening through which an intermediate portion of each of the plurality of bus bars is exposed is formed, a filling mate...