ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,548, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PPC BROADBAND INC. (East Syracuse, N.Y.).
"Spool for preventing tipping of the spool during payout of cable" was invented by Andriy Lozhko (Syracuse, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spool includes a receiving portion configured to receive a coil of cable and a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion configured to retain the coil of cable on the receiving portion. A portion of an outer peripheral surface of the first retaining portion and a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the second retaining portion are configured to engage a ground surface. The first retaining po...