US Patent Issued to Timothy Thomas Tylaska on Feb. 25 for "Combination pad eye and fairlead device" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,990, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Timothy Thomas Tylaska (Preston, Conn.).

"Combination pad eye and fairlead device" was invented by Timothy Thomas Tylaska (Preston, Conn.) and Thomas Willard Dixon (New London, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is presented that can be used as both a pad eye and as a fairlead independently and simultaneously while providing separation between the two modes of use. The device provides the option for multiple attachment points and multiple fairlead passages and reduces the need of requiring both a pad eye and additional hardware such as a pulley in applications such as the implementin...