US Patent Issued to Technical Development on Sept. 22 for "Quad wheel buffering tube clencher capstan" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,943, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Technical Development Corp. (Concord, N.C.).

"Quad wheel buffering tube clencher capstan" was invented by Shawn Lee Burch (Taylorsville, N.C.), Jerry Clyde Moose (Catawba, N.C.), Antony David Shacklady (Hickory, N.C.), Phillip Anthony Cash (Cherryville, N.C.), Benjamin Clinton Burgess Jr. (Newton, N.C.), Paul Melton Godwin (Locust, N.C.), Keith Douglas Earhart (Waxhaw, N.C.), Travis John Card (Mooresville, N.C.) and Michael Van Do (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer tube clencher (47) elongates a buffer tube (43) in a cable manufacturing machine (41) to reduce excess fiber l...