US Patent Issued to Fasteners for Retail on Nov. 3 for "Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,318, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fasteners for Retail Inc. (Twinsburg, Ohio).

"Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection" was invented by Brent O. Ewing (Roscoe, Ill.), Chan Chor Man (Tai Po, Hong Kong) and Jeffrey A. Comstock (Edgerton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retail merchandise pusher is configured for sliding along a pusher assembly track. The pusher assembly is mountable to a retail merchandise shelf. The pusher includes a housing, a spring drum rotatably mounted within the housing, and a coil spring mounted to the spring drum. The coil spring is coilable and uncoilable upon rotation of the spring d...