ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,207, issued on May 6, was assigned to ERICO International Corp. (Solon, Ohio).
"Splice clip for cable trays" was invented by Eric J. Wilson (Solon, Ohio), Jeffrey Alan Wilson (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) and Sameer Alam Salmani (Thane, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splice clip is provided for coupling discrete sections of a wire mesh cable tray. The splice clip can include a bolt with a base. The splice clip can also include a retainer with a set of pockets, including a first pocket and a second pocket. The first pocket can receive a first wire of a first discrete cable tray section and the second pocket can receive a second wire ...