ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,718, issued on Dec. 9.
"Universal beam clamp" was invented by Victor Manuel Flores (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal beam clamp has a C-shaped body with a central channel, a threaded hole through a first portion of the body to one side of the central channel, a clamp screw engaged in the threaded hole through the first portion of the body, into the central channel, and two threaded holes of different thread size side-by-side at a right angle into the body on the closed end face, two threaded holes of different thread size placed side-by-side at a right angle into the body on one part of the open end face, ...