ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,228, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Wiring system" was invented by Haruka Nakano (Mie, Japan), Masaki Mizushita (Mie, Japan), Yuya Fukami (Mie, Japan), Jun Yamasaki (Mie, Japan), Hitomi Nagasawa (Mie, Japan) and Motohiro Yokoi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring system includes: a main wire-side wiring member including a plurality of main wire-side circuits and a plurality of main wire-side connectors, the plurality of main wire-side circuits bundled in a form with a plurality of connection ends; and a terminal-side wiring member including a terminal-side connector conne...