ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,226, issued on July 8, was assigned to Quanta Associates LP (Houston).
"Apparatus and method for temporarily suspending conductors" was invented by Benjamin James Harvey (La Grange, Texas), Daniel Neil O'Connell (Burnaby, Canada) and Raymond Henry Jodoin (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of components for assembling a temporary wire suspender includes in the set a yoke plate, a plurality of J-hook assemblies, a plurality of linkage members, and a plurality of removable couplers configurable to handle an expandable number of energized or de-energized conductors or sub-conductors. Positive control of the suspended an...