ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,942, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cyli Cart LLC (Bakersfield, Calif.).
"Hand truck" was invented by Jan Meyer (Bakersfield, Calif.) and Kevin Russell (Bakersfield, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand truck utilizes a pair of permanent magnet unit to secure two metallic cylindrical objects to the hand truck. Each permanent magnet unit has a forward-facing clamping surface for engaging a side of a metallic cylindrical object. Each permanent magnet provides a selective magnetic field sufficient to secure the metallic cylindrical object to the forward-facing clamping surface of the permanent magnet. The pair of permanent mag...