ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,935, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Multicore cable" was invented by Shigeyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Matsumura (Osaka, Japan), Taro Fujita (Osaka, Japan), Takumi Ooshima (Kanuma, Japan), Hirotaka Kato (Kanuma, Japan), Jo Yagisawa (Kanuma, Japan) and Shinya Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore cable according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a core wire including a plurality of core electric wires stranded together; and a sheath layer disposed around the core wire, wherein each of the core wires includes a conductor including...