ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,486, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honeywell Safety Products USA Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Button assembly" was invented by Raviteja Tata (Hyderabad, India), Alfred Flojo (Lincolnshire, Ill.), Christy Garippo (Woodridge, Ill.), Prudhvi Yarlagadda (Hyderabad, India), Ashish Jain (Bangalore, India), Rizwan Ahmad (Hyderabad, India) and Ravi Avupati (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button assembly for a telescopic hot stick is provided. The button assembly comprises a button housing, a button, and a fastener. The button housing defines a cavity and at least one groove, and the cavity has a bottom cavity surface. The...