ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,383, issued on July 7, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Housing and electronic device" was invented by Takeshi Honda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing that is to house a circuit board includes: a box component that includes an opening on a side facing the circuit board that is housed; and a lid component that closes the opening of the box component. The box component includes a box-side frame portion, the lid component includes a lid-side frame portion, and when the lid component is attached to the box component, the box-side frame portion and the lid-side frame portion com...