ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,469, issued on June 3, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.) and Keter Plastic LTD. (Herzelyia, Israel).

"Utility assembly and coupling mechanism" was invented by Yaron Brunner (Kibbutz Gvat, Israel), Grant T. Squiers (Cudahy, Wis.), Christopher S. Hoppe (Midvale, Utah) and Steven W. Hyma (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a coupling mechanism for detachably attaching two or more utility modules to one another, utility assembles, mobile carriers and other attachable modules and articles."

The patent was filed on Aug. 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/884,230.

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