US Patent Issued to Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore on Oct. 14 for "Self-deploying apparatus for attaching a lashing to a container" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,441, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore Inc. (Houston).

"Self-deploying apparatus for attaching a lashing to a container" was invented by James V. Maher (Houston), Rick Brown (Houston), Jeffrey Daniels (Houston), Daniel McCelvey (Houston), Ben Kubichek (Houston), Jon Kersey (Houston) and Steven Tran (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to stabilize the shipping containers that are stored on a cargo ship between a first column of shipping containers stacked at the starboard side of the cargo ship and a second column of shipping containers stacked at the port side of the cargo ship, supports are ...