ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,588, issued on Sept. 29.
"Collated rebar clip" was invented by Donald B. Ayres (Northbrook, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener assembly made up of separate clips for binding rebars together are serially connected by a carrier to form a series of clips that are separable when applied to the rebars. Each clip comprises a body having a first channel holding a first rebar and a second channel holding a second rebar underlying and transverse to the first rebar. Each channel has a bottom gap allowing a rebar to be positioned in its respective channel. The first rebar is held within the first channel by the second rebar, and th...