US Patent Issued to Warn Industries on Oct. 27 for "Winch including a motor mounted contactor" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,198, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Warn Industries Inc. (Clackamas, Ore.).

"Winch including a motor mounted contactor" was invented by Darren G. Fretz (Oregon City, Ore.), Bryan Averill (Portland, Ore.), Clark Brumet (Happy Valley, Ore.), Thomas Paasch (Milwaukie, Ore.) and Kevin Christensen (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a winch including a motor and a contactor assembly coupled around the motor. In one example, the contactor assembly includes an outer casing with a planar, inner end wall. Additionally, the contactor assembly includes a plurality of angled inner surfaces disp...