ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,577, issued on June 10, was assigned to Klein Tools Inc. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Wire reel storage box" was invented by Daniel Pearson (Fort Worth, Texas), Daniel Flores (Dallas) and Robert Rivera (Euless, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage box includes a compartment having a base and opposed sidewalls extending from the base. Each sidewall of the opposed sidewalls includes two first retaining surfaces extend away from the base and along the sidewall where the first retaining surfaces are a first distance away from each other. Each sidewall includes two parallel second retaining surfaces extending away from the first retai...