ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,127, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Wire harness" was invented by Katsutoshi Izawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kosuke Tanaka (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Ryuta Saito (Yokkaichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness including: a wire; an exterior tube that is tubular and covers an outer circumference of the wire; and a route restrictor that is attached to an outer circumference of the exterior tube, and is configured to restrict a route of the exterior tube, wherein: the exterior tube includes a linear portion, and a corrugated portion that is continuous from the linear portion, the corru...