ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,941, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).
"Multi-head bolt and fastener system" was invented by Julian Huber (Merklingen, Germany), Andrew Read (Voehringen, Germany) and Florian Sturm (Unterroth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-head bolt (10) having a bolt shaft (12) defining a longitudinal axis (14) of the multi-head bolt and a multi-head (16) disposed at a first end of the bolt shaft, the multi-head having at least three pawls (18), each pawl having a fixed radial orientation relative to the bolt shaft and having a primary plane being aligned with the longitudinal axis of the bolt shaft ...