ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,593, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Eastern Co. (Naugatuck, Conn.).
"Rooftop accessory locking clamp" was invented by Michael O. Misner (Lake Villa, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a lockable rooftop carrier clamp having a housing with a bore for accepting a frusto-conically shaped locking post. At least one, and preferably a pair of bolts are biased inwardly into the bore to capture the locking post. The bolts can be moved transversely outwardly by a cam on the outside wall of a hollow rotor located in the bore for pivotal rotation about an axis defined by the bore. The pivoting of the rotor is on...