ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,328, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LINIAN LAB Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Optical fibre clip" was invented by Wesley Arbuckle (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Ian Arbuckle (Glasgow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is described a fixing of unitary construction for securing an article to a surface, comprising; a coupling arrangement (104), for coupling the article to the fixing, wherein the fixing comprises barbs (114) which increase the friction between the fixing and the hole; and an elongate member (106) extending from the coupling arrangement; the elongate member comprising a bend (108) which is located subst...