ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,175, issued on March 24, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noise reduction tool and wire harness" was invented by Itsuki Hasegawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Kaori Usami (Shizuoka, Japan) and Jin Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise reduction tool includes a magnetic body that can be wound around, more than one turn around an axis of an electric wire or an electric wire bundle, the electric wire or the electric wire bundle and a fixing member that fixes, to each other, overlapping sections of a stacked portion in the magnetic body having a winding shape wound around the electric wire or the electric wire bund...