US Patent Issued on June 17 for "Anti-theft covering system for catalytic converters" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,670, issued on June 17.

"Anti-theft covering system for catalytic converters" was invented by Thomas J. Birsen (Waterville, Ohio) and David Birsen (Waterville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is an anti-theft covering system that can surround an object and make cutting that object inefficient and time consuming. Using flexible, durable, high-heat resistant outer covering and hardened, stranded, metal cabling segments, oriented parallel to one another, and inside the outer covering, the invention makes cutting through it and whatever it covers both inefficient and time consuming."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2...