ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,817, issued on April 7, was assigned to NIFCO INC. (Yokosuka, Japan).
"Fastener" was invented by Akihiro Yaguchi (Yokosuka, Japan) and Takehiro Sato (Yokosuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener includes a fitted portion having an elastic piece that is disposed on a side of a base portion configured to allow insertion of the fitted portion into a through hole by elastic deformation in a direction of approaching a base portion and to engage the through hole at an insertion point of the insertion by elastic return in an end position of the insertion, and that is configured to, if force in a direction of pulling out the fit...