US Patent Issued to GRIPPLE on Oct. 27 for "Overhead line clamp" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,633, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GRIPPLE Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Overhead line clamp" was invented by Samuel Barnes (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead line clamp (100) securable to an overhead line (2), the overhead line clamp (100) comprising: pincer members (102); a hinge (104) to enable the pincer members (102) to actuate between an open position and a closed position, wherein at the closed position the pincer members (102) are configured to secure the overhead line (2); and a hand-operable latch (108) configured to actuate the pincer members (102) between the open position and the closed po...