US Patent Issued to Cascade on June 2 for "Extended swing frame roll clamp" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,779, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cascade Corp. (Fairview, Ore.).

"Extended swing frame roll clamp" was invented by Angela Corrine Seagraves (Portland, Ore.), Anthony Michael Logsdon (Vancouver, Wash.) and Cory Evan Pearman (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swing frame roll clamp may include a mounting plate mountable to a lift truck and a pair of opposed clamp arms. The clamp arms may be configured to selectively and alternately grasp and release a cylindrical load, and each opposed clamp arm may be capable of becoming either a short arm or a long arm relative to the other opposed clamp arm."

The patent was fi...