US Patent Issued to Northquip on June 24 for "Livestock chute with both parallel and V-squeeze capability, a pull-up neck extender and a robust head gate track" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,500, issued on June 24, was assigned to Northquip Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Livestock chute with both parallel and V-squeeze capability, a pull-up neck extender and a robust head gate track" was invented by Philip Malcolm Firth (Woodlands, Canada) and Stephen Arthur Langrell (Woodlands, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A livestock squeeze chute is operable in parallel-squeeze, V-squeeze and inverted-V squeeze configurations, and has a head gate with a novel guide track construction for robust rolling support of the gate panels, and a neck extender having uniquely positioned actuators that pull the neck extender upwardly into its...