ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,532, issued on May 27, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
"Interlocking lifting tool" was invented by Edvard Tahmazyan (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Grant Hauser (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes two or more clamp jaws. The two or more clamp jaws are configured to lock around the object in response to the object being pressed against the inner profile of the clamp jaw. The two or more clamp jaws unlock by moving a wedge lock key from a locking position. The wedge lock key prevents the two or more clamp jaws from moving in response to the wedge lock key being in the locking posit...