ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,356, issued on May 5, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wire harness" was invented by Hiroki Suganuma (Makinohara, Japan), Mitsuhisa Sano (Makinohara, Japan) and Shuji Kimura (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness includes a trunk module including a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards, a plurality of trunk connectors, and a first wiring member module connecting the plurality of flexible printed circuit boards to each other, and a plurality of branch modules each including a plurality of branch wiring members and a branch connector provided at ends of the plurality of branch wiring members and con...