ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,335, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Wiring harness" was invented by Mitsunobu Kato (Makinohara, Japan) and Naoto Kogure (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The main protector member includes: a torsion-allowing portion, when the open/close body is opened from the fully closed position to the fully opened position, inwardly allowing a torsional deformation of the harness body that follows the rotation of the arm member; and a bend-allowing portion, when the open/close body is opened from the fully closed position to the fully opened position, inwardly allowing bending deformation of the harness...