ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,211, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ACTEYS (Saint Victor, France).

"Assembly for securely coupling a tool on a working arm of a public works machine with improved operation" was invented by Didier Cinquin (Huriel, France), Remi Ratnik (Durmignat, France) and Rene Sieffert (Odenas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quick coupler for coupling a tool on a working arm of a public works machine, with two connection components equipping the tool, two coupling components for coupling with the connection components, a security component mounted for free rotation, at least one locking component, a translationally movable release compo...