ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,037, issued on March 17, was assigned to LATELEC (Toulouse, France).

"Method for binding a cable bundle using simple strip bindings" was invented by Cyrille Delame-Quentin (Toutens, France) and Julien Mourieras (Labege, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for binding a cable bundle using simple strip bindings, where producing a binding includes lacing the strip around the bundle and producing a stop by adhesively bonding the lacing to itself by applying at least one glue dot to the strip once the lacing has been carried out, without a self-locking knot being formed. A piece of looped strip is wound around the cable bundle...