ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,764, issued on July 15, was assigned to AVETICS GLOBAL PTE. LTD. (Singapore).
"Tether management system and method" was invented by Jang En Joshua Chao (Singapore), Gurbind Singh s/o Harbir Singh (Singapore) and Peng Wee Marcus See (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tether management system is disclosed. The tether management system includes a spool, a tension sensor, a controller and a moveable pulley. The spool is rotatable to reel in and reel out a tether. The tension sensor measures a tension of the tether. The controller receives a desired tension of the tether and controls the rotation of the spool to reel in and reel ...