ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,530, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IDEAL Industries Inc. (Sycamore, Ill.).

"Integrated tool with circuit tracer, receptacle tester, and/or load continuity tester" was invented by Christopher Gerard Forthaus (Naperville, Ill.) and Timothy Tunnell (Sycamore, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, as described herein, relate to a circuit tracer transmitter including an integrated continuity test. In addition, systems and methods, as described herein, relate to communicating data over a conductor that is being tested with a circuit tracer, load continuity tester, and/or an integrated circuit tracer with load cont...