US Patent Issued to NYP on June 23 for "Method and device for making wire baskets" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,926, issued on June 23, was assigned to NYP LLC (Lumberton, N.C.).

"Method and device for making wire baskets" was invented by Laurentiu Popa (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for making a wire basket, the device having a spinning fixture with a top plate with an outer periphery, arms attached at a top end at the periphery of the top plate and projecting downwardly, such that bottom ends of the arms collectively form a circular arrangement having a diameter greater than the diameter of the top plate, a means for guiding wire onto the spinning fixture such that the wire is wound onto the spinning fixtu...