US Patent Issued to Patrick Stewart Bray on July 28 for "Zip tail stop" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,647, issued on July 28, was assigned to Patrick Stewart Bray (Hampshire, Great Britain).

"Zip tail stop" was invented by Patrick Stewart Bray (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tail stop arrangement (200) for a zip (100) includes a first tail stop (300) for attachment to a first zip tape (102), the first tail stop (300) including a body (302) including a channel (304) and a second tail stop (400) for attachment to a second zip tape (104), the second tail stop (400) including a protrusion (406). The body (302) of the first tail stop (300) has a longitudinal axis and the channel (304) extends parallel to the lon...