ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,002, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Conduit and method for laying cable" was invented by Soichiro Kaneko (Sakura, Japan), Masayuki Ishioka (Sakura, Japan) and Ken Osato (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conduit for laying a cable includes a suspension wire, one or more hangers held by the suspension wire and having an accommodation space that accommodates the cable, and a groove extending along an axial direction of the suspension wire. The groove has an opening connected to the accommodation space. The opening has a width smaller than a maximum width of an interior of the groove."
The pat...