ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,935, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dellner Couplers AB (Falun, Sweden).
"Treadplate for a floor of a gangway and gangway" was invented by Christopher Meers (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treadplate for a floor of a gangway the treadplate having a basic body of a first material, and a plurality of bones of a second material, wherein the bones are encapsulated by the first material, wherein the second material has a higher elastic modulus than the first material and/or the stiffness of at least one bone of the several bones is higher than the stiffness of the basic body."
The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 202...