ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,484, issued on Sept. 9.
"Pipe bender alignment assembly" was invented by Dwight Stearne (Roseville, Calif.) and Damien Akens (Roseville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe bender alignment assembly includes a sleeve that is positionable around a pipe. A plurality of laser mounts is each attached to and extends outwardly from the sleeve and a plurality of laser emitters is mounted to a respective one of the plurality of laser mounts to emit a beam of laser light outwardly from the sleeve. The sleeve is rotatable on the pipe to align a respective one of the plurality of laser emitters with an alignment mark on a pipe bender ...