US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Long span strand clamp" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,722, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Long span strand clamp" was invented by Marc J Durocher Jr. (Auburn, Mass.), Robert R Sheehan (Florham Park, N.J.), Eugene C Phillips (Philadelphia), Shawn C McCourt (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) and Erik J Sheehan (Sparta, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp for supporting a wire from a strand includes a first clamp portion having a first inner side and a second clamp portion having a second inner side. An opening sized to receive the strand is defined between the first inner side and the second inner side when the first clamp portion ...