US Patent Issued to Blue Force Gear on Sept. 2 for "Load carrier attachment facility" (South Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,713, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Blue Force Gear Inc. (Pooler, Ga.).

"Load carrier attachment facility" was invented by Ashley A. Burnsed Jr. (Savannah, Ga.) and Stephen G. Hilliard (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load carrier attachment facility has a support structure, an attachment removably connected to the support structure, an elongated piping element connected to one of the support structure and the attachment, an elongated channel element connected to the other of the support structure and the attachment, the elongated piping element having a head with a first width and a neck having a second width l...