ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,606, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical junction box and wire harness" was invented by Kazuki Shirosaka (Kakegawa, Japan) and Hideki Mizuno (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical junction box includes a heat generating component (a relay and a bus bar) and a cooling unit that cools the heat generating component. The cooling unit includes: a metal cooling plate; a heat transfer member having insulating properties and intervening between the bus bar of the heat generating component and the metal cooling plate; and a spacer having insulating properties, being in contact with the b...