ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,007, issued on July 28, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compressed stranded conductor, method of manufacturing compressed stranded conductor, insulated electric wire, and wire harness" was invented by Shuntaro Arai (Susono, Japan), Daigo Matsuura (Susono, Japan), Satoru Yoshinaga (Susono, Japan) and Tomomi Hirota (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed stranded conductor includes a central stranded wire having a plurality of conductive strands which are twisted together and an outer circumferential stranded wire having a plurality of conductive strands which are twisted together at an outer circumference of ...