US Patent Issued to Copperweld Group on Sept. 29 for "Multi-terminal tracer wire access point" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,632, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Copperweld Group Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Multi-terminal tracer wire access point" was invented by Trevor Schroedl (Big Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point for sending signals along a plurality of tracer wires includes a base and a cover attached to the base. The access point includes a plurality of terminals wherein each of the plurality of terminals include a bore for receiving one of the plurality of tracer wires within a cavity of the base and conductively connect to each of the plurality of tracer wires to each of the terminals. A switching mechanism is slidably p...