US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on July 1 for "Electrical safety plug" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,962, issued on July 1, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Electrical safety plug" was invented by Adrian Willson (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety plug for an electrical outlet, including an electrically nonconductive plug body. An adapter is removably coupled to a first end of the electrically nonconductive plug body. The adapter includes a set of pins. The set of pins correspond to a set of pin connector slots associated with an electrical outlet. The safety plug is a dummy plug configured to keep the electrical outlet covered to protect from electrical discharge."

The patent was file...