ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,492, issued on May 5, was assigned to Pipe-Pal Holdings Inc. (Chilliwack, Canada).

"Conduit alignment tools and methods" was invented by Ryan Morris (Chilliwack, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the described technology provide a conduit spacer tool for enforcing a minimum spacing between adjacent conduits. The conduit spacer tool may comprise a body comprising a pair of side arms, each side arm having an equal width. The body of the conduit spacer tool may comprise a slot defined by an inner surface of the side arms, the slot terminating at a groove of the body and the slot having a width for receiving a co...