ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,520, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AFC Cable Systems Inc. (New Bedford, Mass.).
"Low-profile cable armor" was invented by Peter Lafreniere (Mattapoisett, Mass.), Stephen Lundgren (Marion, Mass.), Paulo Damoura (Dorchester, Mass.), Ronald Pegg (New Bedford, Mass.), Antonio Araujo (New Bedford, Mass.) and David Campbell (Bristol, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an armored cable assembly which may include a plurality of conductors and a metal sheath disposed over the plurality of conductors. The metal sheath may have a plurality of revolutions extending helically along a lengthwise axis, each of the plurality of re...