ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,293, issued on May 19, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Reusable releasable restraint for evacuation assemblies" was invented by Petchi Subramanian (Bangalore, India) and Mohinder Saini (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A releasable restraint may comprise a spline housing and a plunger removably coupled to the spline housing. A plurality of snap clips may be rotatably coupled to the plunger. The plurality of snap clips are configured to create an interference with the spline housing to limit movement of the plunger with respect to the spline housing. The plunger is configured to release from the spline...