US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 25 for "Fastener insert" (Wisconsin, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,992, issued on March 25, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Fastener insert" was invented by Thomas Michael Semrow (Waukesha, Wis.) and Albert J. Dapoz (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fastener insert configured to join two components. The fastener insert includes an embeddable shank having an exterior surface and an axial opening. The embeddable shank can be inserted, embedded, and locked into a first component. The exterior surface defines a plurality of lobes extending around said embeddable shank. Each of the plurality of lobes has a leading edge. In some examples, a...