ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,587, issued on Oct. 21.
"Torque slider tong assembly" was invented by Jacob Baryam (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque slider tong assembly provides a safe, convenient, light weight, portable, hand-operable dual pipe wrench for use in makeup and breakout of tubular connections. The torque-slider tong assembly includes a backup arm forming a first pipe wrench gripping a first pipe, a torque arm forming a second pipe wrench gripping a second pipe, and an actuator providing motive force moving the torque arm relative to the backup arm transverse to the pipes, which rotates the pipes relative to each other. A torque slider a...