ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,858, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAINETTI S.P.A. (Vicenza, Italy).
"Clip for hangers" was invented by Mario Mainetti (Valdagno Vicenza, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a clip for hangers applied to a bar having a pair of opposed blades reciprocally connected by means of an elastic element with opposed sides and curved nails being insertable into a recess present in each of the blades. The elastic element pushes the lower end of the blades into reciprocal contact. The elastic element "U"-shaped and each of the blades is composed of a first internal element and second external element sup...