ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,503, issued on July 1, was assigned to Conductix Wampfler France (Belley, France).
"Reel for winding and unwinding a link" was invented by Nicolas Malcles (Belley, France) and Herve Savarino (Bregnier-Cordon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a reel for a winder, comprising: a mandrel (10) extending around an axis of rotation (X) of the reel, a plurality of pairs of lateral arms (20a, 20b) extending on both sides of the mandrel (10), together acting as flanks defining, between them, a winding volume for the link,said reel being characterised in that it comprises a closed flange (40) attached to the arms (2...