ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,427, issued on March 25, was assigned to STATE GRID ZHEJIANG TONGXIANG ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY COMPANY (Zhejiang, China).

"Manual type C-shaped wire clamp operating device" was invented by Dong Qian (Zhejing, China), Guoliang Liu (Zhejing, China), Hong Xu (Zhejing, China), Chongxi Zhu (Zhejing, China), Shengwei Shen (Zhejing, China), Jinfan Sun (Zhejing, China), Aoyang Hu (Zhejing, China) and Wei Zeng (Zhejing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a manual type C-shaped wire clamp operating device, includes an insulating operating rod, wherein an upper end of the insulating operating rod is provided wit...