US Patent Issued to HKC-US on June 2 for "Spring push blade iron lock" (Tennessee, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,467, issued on June 2, was assigned to HKC-US LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Spring push blade iron lock" was invented by James Burns (Memphis, Tenn.), Brendan Byrne (Germantown, Tenn.) and Jeff Newman (Cornelius, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for an easy to a dual latch system that work simultaneously for locking a blade iron part of a ceiling fan blade to a motor-rotor housing. A first mechanism includes a protruding catch end with a vertical slot through the blade iron. The protruding end of the blade arm is pushed against a spring biased ledge member in the motor-rotor fan housing and when the blade iro...