US Patent Issued to Garrett Ray Hurley on March 18 for "Lever-operated adjustment devices, fit systems, and line tensioning systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,998, issued on March 18, was assigned to Garrett Ray Hurley (San Francisco).

"Lever-operated adjustment devices, fit systems, and line tensioning systems" was invented by Garrett Ray Hurley (San Francisco) and Loren Maxwell Brock (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustment device includes a housing supporting a rotatable spool that is operably coupled to a tension line. The spool is configured to rotate about a first axis in a first direction to wind the tension line around the spool and is configured to rotate about the first axis in a second direction opposite the first rotational direction to unwind the at leas...