ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,379, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL SAFETY COMPONENTS Ltd. (Bangor, Great Britain).
"Rope wrench tether" was invented by Kevin Brown (Gwynedd, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tether includes a length of rope with a primary loop at a midpoint for connection to a rope wrench, a pair of secondary loops remote from the primary loop, and a generally stiff but partially flexible rope cover between the primary and secondary loops, the rope cover being pre-curved along its length, the tether also including a tail-portion of the rope between the secondary loops and the rope cover, providing unrestricted 360d...