ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,001, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pride Manufacturing Co. LLC (Brentwood, Tenn.).
"Micro-adjustable rotary closure" was invented by John Robert Burt (Brentwood, Tenn.) and Lee Paul Shuttleworth (Brentwood, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and associated methods for an improved rotary closure for tensioning a tensioned lacing element are disclosed herein. In particular, the improved rotary closure includes an adjuster component in association with a tensioning component to incrementally counter-rotate the tensioning component and a tensioned cylindrical device, enabling micro-adjustment of the...