US Patent Issued to TruBlue on Jan. 13 for "Line dispensing devices" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,578, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TruBlue LLC (Louisville, Colo.).

"Line dispensing devices" was invented by Carl Andrew Bailey (Boulder, Colo.), Marc Reich (Boulder, Colo.), Ryan Daniel Walker (Superior, Colo.), Stefan Stahl (Boulder, Colo.), Luke Smith (Loveland, Colo.) and Nolan Hurd (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line dispensing device includes a housing, a rotatable shaft rotatably supported by the housing and defining a rotational axis, and a line drum disposed about the rotational axis and configured to extend and retract a line from the housing. The line dispensing device also includes a retraction asse...