US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on June 30 for "Wire harness designing method and design support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,299, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wire harness designing method and design support device" was invented by Takanori Fujisawa (Makinohara, Japan) and Tetsuya Onoda (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness designing method includes, extracting, as a primary common component, a component commonly provided in the wire harnesses of all the product numbers, and determining a configuration of a basic part; classifying, as an optional component, the rest of the primary common component among all the components that form the wire harnesses of all the product numbers; extracting, as a second...