US Patent Issued to Lear on Oct. 28 for "Cable retainer and method" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,854, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Cable retainer and method" was invented by Jun Ruayana (Novi, Mich.), Muhammad Ashrafi (Woodhaven, Mich.), Vinodh Krishnan Balasubramanian (Sterling Heights, Mich.), John Montgomery (Canton, Mich.), William Bond (Livonia, Mich.) and Erwin Baga-an (Cebu, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable retainer may include a base and a retention member. The base may include a platform, a fastener, a securing protrusion, and a securing protrusion opening disposed in the securing protrusion. The fastener may extend from the platform and may be engageable with a s...