US Patent Issued to Industry Nine Componenty on June 10 for "Individually phased pawl drive mechanism" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,175, issued on June 10, was assigned to Industry Nine Componenty Inc. (Asheville, N.C.).

"Individually phased pawl drive mechanism" was invented by Michael Macfarland Dulken (Asheville, N.C.) and Clint John Spiegel (Asheville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An individually phased pawl drive mechanism includes a plurality of pawls each including a plurality of protrusions forming at least one slot between a corresponding pairing of the plurality of protrusions; a pawl carrier member sized and configured for receipt of the plurality of pawls; a drive ring carrier member including a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth; wher...