ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,229, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multicore cable-having a stranded pair of core electric wires and an adjacent wire with a controlled diameter ratio" was invented by Shigeyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Matsumura (Osaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan), Naoshi Yokoyama (Osaka, Japan) and Takumi Ooshima (Kanuma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore cable includes a first core wire and a first sheath layer disposed around the first core wire. The first core wire is composed of a pair of first core electric wires and a wire that are stranded together. Ea...