ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,452, issued on April 22.
"High speed high performance delineator system" was invented by Kenneth Parrott (Helotes, Texas) and Gregory L. Hannah (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic delineator system having a flexible delineator body member, a base member, a cylindrical load-collar attached to the body member at a first end and having a second end with rigid tapering threaded shoulder members to be releasably interlocked within a receiving space in the base member. The collar has tapering side walls with a varying thickness from a first end to a second end."
The patent was filed on May 19, 2020, under Application No. ...