ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,523, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Textron Aviation Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Wire twisting device" was invented by Jesse Weiss (Wichita, Kan.) and Ryan Lynch (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire twisting device may include a driven rotating mechanism having a groove configured to receive two wires, an electric motor associated with an encoder, wherein the encoder is configured to generate an electrical signal corresponding to changes in rotation of the electric motor, a drive gear mechanically coupled with the electric motor for rotating the driven rotating mechanism, a current sensor on a printed circuit board ...