US Patent Issued to Behr Process on May 5 for "Pole adapter and related hand tools using the adapter" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,427, issued on May 5, was assigned to Behr Process Corp. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Pole adapter and related hand tools using the adapter" was invented by Mitch Barbon (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pole adapter extends along a longitudinal axis, and includes a flange and a skirt extending axially away from the flange. The flange includes an inboard side including an adapter base surface, an outboard side having an outboard surface and a plurality of circumferentially spaced and axially inwardly extending pockets in the outboard surface and having obliquely oriented receiver facets, a radially inner portion extending axial...