ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,372, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connection box" was invented by Hirotaka Kiyota (Makinohara, Japan) and Takeshi Onoda (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connection box includes a circuit branching component disposed outside the frame and outside a tubular portion, in which the tubular wall of the tubular portion has a notch through which a second electrical connection portion of an internal conductive member protrudes toward the outside of the frame outside the tubular portion, and a block includes a protruding block portion that protrudes toward the outside of the ...