US Patent Issued to Preformed Line Products on Sept. 8 for "Segmented cable tangent clamp" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,971, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Preformed Line Products Co. (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Segmented cable tangent clamp" was invented by Benjamin Franklin Ciesielczyk (Madison, Ohio), Douglas Bell (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) and Jacob Jeffrey Palmer (Chesterland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tangent clamp includes a body to be supported by a structure and to permit cables to proceed along a tangential direction relative to the structure. The tangent clamp may include at least one actuatable clamping portion associated with the body to support a respective one of the cables. The body is configured to permit at least one add...