ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,891, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oetiker Schweiz AG (Horgen, Switzerland).
"Smart hand installation pincer" was invented by Wei Zheng (Tianjin, China), Yafei Zhang (Tianjin, China) and Chen Liu (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manual assembly tool (10) of the compound action type for ear clamps, including a pair of lever arms (12, 14), a pair of jaw members (16, 18). The lever arms (12, 14) are pivotably connected to each other at a pivot point (20) near a distal end of the lever arms (12, 14), where-in each lever arm (12, 14) includes a handle end (12a, 14a) on a proximal side and an extension arm (12b, 14b) e...