US Patent Issued to TAILFIN on July 21 for "Securing strap" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,458, issued on July 21, was assigned to TAILFIN Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Securing strap" was invented by Nicholas Broadbent (North Somerset, Great Britain) and Robert Phillips (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strap, for example for securing an accessory to a frame tube of a bicycle, comprises a band 2 of a resiliently extensible material which is provided with a buckle 8. The buckle 8 has an opening 14 through which a tail end 6 of the band 2 can be passed. An outer bar 17 of the buckle 8 defines an edge of the opening 14. A prong 18 is fixed to the outer bar 17, and can be engaged with any one of a ser...