ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,923, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal connection structure" was invented by Akihiro Saito (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal connection structure includes a housing having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, a terminal accommodated in each of the terminal accommodating chambers, and a terminal-equipped electric wire in which a connection terminal connected to end portion of an electric wire is electrically connected to an electric wire connection portion of the terminal. A connection portion of the electric wire connection portion to which the connection terminal i...