ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,192, issued on June 3, was assigned to EASTERN METAL SUPPLY INC. (Lake Worth, Fla.).

"Torsion spring adjuster" was invented by Raffaele Barioli (Lake Worth, Fla.), Bill Feeley (Lake Worth, Fla.), Chris Miller (Lake Worth, Fla.) and Brian Peterson (Lake Worth, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torsion spring adjuster for a rolling shutter is provided. A support plate has a first flange with a hole. A wheel is rotatably mountable on the support plate. The wheel has: a drive recess shaped to engage an end of a torsion spring; a first set of recesses around a circumference of the wheel, the first set of recesses being a first lateral ...