US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Small part clamping device providing a high degree of parallelism" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,353, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Small part clamping device providing a high degree of parallelism" was invented by Kevin William Swallow (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp assembly for securing small parts is described herein. In some embodiments, the clamp assembly comprises a free jaw and a fixed jaw configured to secure a part positioned at a proximal end of the clamp assembly between a free jaw pad and a fixed jaw pad. The free jaw is configured to rotate at least about a size pin positioned at a distal end of the fixed jaw opposit...