ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,842, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).
"Top loading cable plough" was invented by Harald Solheim (Oslo, Norway) and Tom Thorjussen (Fjellhamar, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plough for burying a cable has a base frame, an upper frame member and a ploughshare support; a topside of the ploughshare support features a cable trough; and a cable guiding path extends from a front end to a rear end of the plough. The cable guiding path is arranged between the base frame and the upper frame member and along the cable trough. The upper frame member is movably connected relative to the base frame, such that...