ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,993, issued on April 29, was assigned to Gripple Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Connecting device" was invented by Lee Giemza (Sheffield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting device (10) is disclosed for connecting an article (12) to a support (14). The connecting device (10) comprises a flexible elongate member (20) and a clamping arrangement (18) for clamping the flexible elongate member (20) around the article (12). The clamping arrangement (18) comprises a body (22) and a clamping element (34). The clamping element (34) is movable between clamping and non-clamping positions. In the clamping position, the clamping elem...