US Patent Issued to ANTHEM AVIATION on March 3 for "Tool and method for one-handed manipulation and placement of conduit-joining sleeve" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,950, issued on March 3, was assigned to ANTHEM AVIATION LLC (Chesapeake, Va.).

"Tool and method for one-handed manipulation and placement of conduit-joining sleeve" was invented by Walter R. Averett (Chesapeake, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for one-handed operation includes an open-ended cylinder having two half-cylinders coupled at first circumferential ends thereof. A retainer, coupled to the open-ended cylinder, has a spring-bias to automatically couple the half-cylinders when second circumferential ends of the half-cylinders are in contact with one another. The retainer is operable by a single finger of a user's hand...