ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,108, issued on July 29, was assigned to Xtreme Structures & Fabrication LLC (Sulphur Springs, Texas).
"Rotatable forkend connection system" was invented by Michael Wells (Sulphur Springs, Texas), Mark Newlin (Grey Forest, Texas) and Clifton Robbins (Yantis, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable forkend connection system is provided that includes a shank and a forkend connector. The shank is fixedly coupled to a device member and extends within the device member along a longitudinal axis of the device member. The shank includes a protrusion extending from the shank in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of th...