ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,991, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Channel nut with offset notches" was invented by Nicholas Morris (Feldkirch, Austria), Simon Fasser (Mauren, Liechtenstein) and Lukas Mundwiler (Gams, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel nut includes a web, a first flange projecting from the web where the first flange has a first notch for receiving a first lip of a strut channel, and a second flange projecting from the web where the second flange has a first notch for receiving the first lip of the strut channel. The first notch of the first flange and the first notch of the second flange a...