ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,738, issued on Sept. 2.
"Tong with one-handed locking mechanism" was invented by Maurizio Mollano (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tong with a lock that can be actuated using one hand without changing a grip on the tong and without having to change an orientation of the tong. The lock can be engaged and disengaged by squeezing arms of the tong together. The lock can have a latch on one arm and a strike on the other arm. When the arms are squeezed together the strike engages the latch into a locked configuration. From the locked configuration, when the arms are squeezed again, the latch releases the strike."
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