ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,138, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GRIPPLE Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Connecting apparatus and suspension assembly" was invented by Simon Davis (Sheffield, Great Britain), Samuel White (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Oliver Sunderland (Sheffield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting apparatus comprises a support member and a fastening arrangement to secure the support member to an elongate member. The fastening arrangement comprises a holding component which receives the elongate member. The through hole has a holding region and a release region. The holding component has cooperating formations at the holding reg...