ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,260, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Cable tie tool" was invented by Federico Cabrele (Piazzola, Italy), Michele Sala (Montevecchia, Italy), Lorenzo Altarino (Padua, Italy) and Michele Lucon (Padua, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for tensioning and severing a cable tie comprising, inter alia, a reel magazine assembly, configured to retainingly receive at least one cable strap reel and provide for a spring-biased rotation of said at least one cable strap reel about a cable strap reel center axis, wherein said spring-biased rotation is directed so as to wind up a cable tie str...