ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,789, issued on April 14.
"Rescue access wedge" was invented by Jason Allen (Kelso, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rescue access wedge having a base portion, a rear portion and a front portion with a pair of opposed generally triangular sidewalls upwardly extended from the base portion wherein the sidewalls taper from the rear portion to a tip connecting the pair of opposed side surfaces and wherein a pair of aligned slots disposed on opposed sidewalls are adjoined for coupling with paired prongs a fork end of a rescue tool and a concavity or notch disposed in a top and/or bottom surface configured to seat this rescue access ...