ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,105, issued on July 21, was assigned to Trex Co. Inc. (Winchester, Va.).
"Connector clip for deck boards" was invented by Jacob Hurst (Winchester, Va.) and Darren Garrison (Capon Bridge, W.va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary embodiment, a fastener installation tool for installing hidden fasteners to a distal workpiece is provided. The fastener installation tool may include a housing containing an advancement mechanism for moving a plurality of hidden fasteners and a driving member that is engageable with a foremost fastener of the plurality of hidden fasteners to fasten the foremost hidden fastener to a structural memb...