US Patent Issued to IDEAL Industries on March 3 for "Fish tape dispenser with automatic length determination" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,398, issued on March 3, was assigned to IDEAL Industries Inc. (Sycamore, Ill.).

"Fish tape dispenser with automatic length determination" was invented by Brenton Solar (Genoa, Ill.), Tim Tunnell (Sycamore, Ill.) and Brendan Metz (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a spool; a fish tape wound on the spool; a magnet coupled to the spool; a sensor configured to detect the magnet and to generate a signal indicative of the detection; and a controller in communication with the sensor and configured to determine an extension of the fish tape based on the signal; and output the determined amount."

The patent w...