US Patent Issued to Quanta Associates on May 13 for "Spring loaded ground clamp" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,953, issued on May 13, was assigned to Quanta Associates LP (Houston).

"Spring loaded ground clamp" was invented by Daniel Neil O'Connell (Burnaby, Canada), Raymond Henry Jodoin (Burnaby, Canada) and Benjamin James Harvey (La Grange, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grounding clamp uses a spring driving a piston mounted movable jaw as a safety lockout. The movable jaw and a fixed jaw, which may include teeth, form a conductor clamp. The ground clamp mounts on the end of a hot stick to provide for electrically insulated remote operation of the ground clamp by a lineman holding the hot stick and pulling on, or releasing, a lever ...