US Patent Issued to Lear on March 18 for "Cable retainer and method" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,446, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Cable retainer and method" was invented by Jun Roz Ruayana (Novi, Mich.), Erwin Baga-an (Cebu, Philippines), John Montgomery (Canton, Mich.) and William Bond (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of connecting a cable with a cable retainer may include forming a hole into a flat cable, forming a first slit into the flat cable, and/or forming a second slit into the flat cable. The first slit, the second slit, and/or the hole may define an opening. A cable retainer may include a base, a first portion connected to the base and having a first leng...