US Patent Issued to GIBRALTAR GLOBAL on Sept. 9 for "Hairpin connector for traffic cable barrier system" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,569, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GIBRALTAR GLOBAL LLC (Burnet, Texas).

"Hairpin connector for traffic cable barrier system" was invented by Ronald Faulkenberry (Burnet, Texas), Jerry G. McGee (Newport Beach, Calif.) and William H. Neusch (Marble Falls, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable barrier assembly or system can include line posts extending along a barrier section. Cables can extend along the line posts. In addition, each line post can have a total number of cable retention features that is less than a total number of the cables. Each cable retention feature can include at least a partial loop that limits a ran...