ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,165, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device and method for forming a notch for stripping" was invented by Naoya Yaguchi (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of cutting mechanisms of a device for forming a notch for stripping includes: an electrically conductive notch forming cutter blade; a contact detecting section configured to detect a contact between an outermost conductor of a coated electric wire and the notch forming cutter blade based on a current through an electric circuit including a power supply connecting part, the outermost conductor and the notch forming cutter blade; and a not...