US Patent Issued to Warn Industries on Feb. 4 for "Systems for winch rope interfaces and recovery rigging mountable to a winch fairlead and/or vehicle bumper" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,006, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Warn Industries Inc. (Clackamas, Ore.).

"Systems for winch rope interfaces and recovery rigging mountable to a winch fairlead and/or vehicle bumper" was invented by Darren G. Fretz (Oregon City, Ore.) and Jackson C. Wang (Happy valley, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for rigging interfaces couple to winch cable terminals that protect outer surfaces of fairleads and rigging devices as connections between objects. In one example, a rigging interface may include curved surfaces adapted to nest against a fairlead. In another example, a rigging device m...