ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,602, issued on Oct. 14.
"Clip assembly for a fuel nozzle" was invented by Kharis Leroy Goodwin (Bridgeport, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device separable from a gasoline pump, wherein the device is configured to engage the trigger mechanism of the gasoline pump's fuel nozzle to hold the fuel nozzle in the activated position, thereby enabling hands-free pumping from the fuel nozzle. The device has a set of jaws biased in a closed position yet movable to an open position through manipulation of its lever arms. Teeth provided with the set of jaws facilitate the maintaining of the fuel nozzle in the activated position."
The pa...