US Patent Issued to Springs Window Fashions on Dec. 16 for "Motorized shade and wand assembly" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,830, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Springs Window Fashions LLC (Middleton, Wis.).

"Motorized shade and wand assembly" was invented by Michael Allen Graybar (Madison, Wis.), Russell Monroe Jungers (Madison, Wis.) and Eric Nathan Krantz-Lilienthal (Janesville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member configured to connect a roller tube of a roller shade to a motor, the member includes a body defining a plurality of first outer walls and a plurality of second outer walls, the first outer walls being offset from the second outer walls, and a mounting hub defining an aperture through the body, the mounting hub is configured to en...