ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,679, issued on June 9, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Wire harness" was invented by Hiroki Uno (Mie, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsuo (Mie, Japan) and Kazuya Takahashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness includes: a protector including an accommodating portion and an attachment portion; an electric wire passing through the accommodating portion; a fiber protection member made of a cloth with fibers, having flexibility, and covering at least an area of the electric wire that extends along the attachment portion and an area of the electric wire that extends outward of the protector relative to ...