ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,888, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MSD International GMBH (Lucerne, Switzerland).
"Genderless interface connector pull tool" was invented by Noel Lahart (Kilkenny, Ireland), Brian Mullarkey (Carlow, Ireland) and John Hayes (Tipperary, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genderless interface connector pull tool is used for removing a membrane from a genderless interface connector. The tool may include a clamp and a hand grip. The clamp is configured to clamp a genderless interface connector and may include a top clamp coupled with a bottom clamp, and a pair of rails located on a top surface of the top clamp. The hand grip ma...