ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,450, issued on April 1, was assigned to AMI Attachments Inc. (Hawkesville, Canada).

"Robust multi-tool assembly for hydraulic excavators" was invented by Steven Oscar Frey (Elmira, Canada) and Dwight Colin Myer (Drayton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic excavator tool adapted to be secured to the distal working end of an excavator boom including a main tool assembly with a tool framework, a spaced apart pair of connection flanges fast with the tool framework, and, a structural tubular casing integral with the tool framework extending across and through the tool framework and through the flanges, plus a rotary hydraul...