US Patent Issued to Reynolds Presto Products on June 3 for "Connection device for fastening expanded cell confinement structures and methods for doing the same" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,088, issued on June 3, was assigned to Reynolds Presto Products Inc. (Lake Forest, Ill.).

"Connection device for fastening expanded cell confinement structures and methods for doing the same" was invented by Michael James Dickey (Menasha, Wis.), Bryan Scott Wedin (Oneida, Wis.), Cory Scott Schneider (Green Bay, Wis.), Katie Lynn Bouchard (Greenville, Wis.), Joseph Paul George (Manitowoc, Wis.) and Jennifer Ann Vander Linden (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection device for fastening two expanded cellular confinement structures includes: an insertion member; an integral shank extending perpendicular from the insert...