ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,376, issued on June 9, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector including heat storage member that is elastically deformable in accordance with shape of accommodation space" was invented by Yasuhiro Yamaguchi (Kakegawa, Japan) and Hideki Mizuno (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a connector including: an electric wire; a terminal connected to the electric wire; a housing having an accommodation space inside the housing, the accommodation space accommodating a connection portion between the electric wire and the terminal; a seal member configured to seal an opening portion of the accommodation spa...