ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,644, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BESSEY Tool GmbH & Co. KG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Clamp with rotatable advancement apparatus" was invented by Valentin Sawizki (Erlenbach, Germany) and Gerhard Kloepfer (Pleidelsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp is provided, said clamp comprising a clamp bar, a fixed jaw which is located at the clamp bar, a counter jaw relative to which the clamp bar is displaceable, an advancement apparatus on which the clamp bar is displaceably supported and to which the counter jaw is connected in translationally fixed relation, an actuating device which is arranged at the adva...