ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,725, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Wire harness and lighting system" was invented by Miyu Mizutani (Yokkaichi, Japan), Mitsuhiro Shimamura (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takashi Kambe (Yokkaichi, Japan), Go Ueno (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Hiroki Uno (Yokkaichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness including: a plurality of electric wires that is configured to be routed from a vehicle body to a sliding door that opens and closes relative to the vehicle body; and a light emitter that is connected to the plurality of electric wires and that is configured such that an orientation of the li...