ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,370, issued on March 17, was assigned to ERICO International Corp. (Solon, Ohio).
"Cable tray exit" was invented by Dennis Young (Amherst, Ohio), Tom Colangelo (Lombard, Ill.) and Eric J. Wilson (Solon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exit adapters are disclosed to provide cable exits for cable trays, including cable trays formed from lattices of wires. An exit adapter can include a ramp that defines a cable path. Some exit adapters can be selectively installed in either of a first orientation or a second orientation, to route cable out of a cable tray (e.g., for use with, respectively, a modified cable tray or an unmodified cab...