ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,838, issued on July 28, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connection structure" was invented by Yoshiya Miyazaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Nobutaka Kaneko (Shizuoka, Japan), Ginga Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryo Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding portion in which a power supply distribution unit is inserted and held is formed in a case of an electrical connection structure. Here, the power supply distribution unit includes a main body formed so as to have an approximately twice-rotation symmetrical shape with respect to an imaginary line extending in a first direction. A projection is formed on t...