ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,038, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and HI-LEX Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Cable adjuster" was invented by Tatsuya Fukuoka (Toyota, Japan), Kenji Usuki (Kawanishi, Japan), Teruyuki Hadatsuki (Miyoshi, Japan), Takayoshi Hobo (Nagoya, Japan), Tomoyoshi Okada (Sanda, Japan) and Shingo Takeuchi (Toyonaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable adjuster has a main case, an outer casing fixing member, a number of sliders, and a locking member. The main case is configured to insert the inner cable in the cable axial direction. The outer casing fixing member affixes to an end of a pre-branch outer ...