US Patent Issued to Gallagher Group on March 18 for "Fence post" (New Zealander Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,895, issued on March 18, was assigned to Gallagher Group Ltd. (Hamilton, New Zealand).

"Fence post" was invented by Robert Andrew Wade (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fence system, post, and method of manufacture are herein disclosed. The post includes a shaft, and an overmold layer extending at least a portion of a length of the shaft. The overmold layer includes a plurality of external attachment locating features for selectively securing wire locating attachments at predetermined locations along the length of the shaft. The fence system includes a plurality of the posts and a plurality of wire locating att...