ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,250, issued on March 25, was assigned to ROCKFORD RIGGING INC. (Rockford, Ill.).
"Multi-armed lifting accessory" was invented by John Morris (Chillicothe, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Multi-Armed Lifting Accessory is disclosed herein which is compact and transportable in various deployments. The Multi-Armed Lifting Accessory is advantageous and useful as it has hingedly connected loading and support arms attached to a main lifter body. The supporting arms are spring loaded allowing the Multi-Armed Lifting Accessory to stably engage with irregular shaped objects such as barge lid or a skid steer loader and allows for flexibl...