ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,094, issued on May 6, was assigned to DYWIDAG-Systems International GmbH (Unterschleissheim, Germany).
"Damping arrangement for a cable" was invented by Werner Brand (Freising, Germany) and Arnaud Pacitti (Leipzig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a damping arrangement (100) for a cable (102) extending in a tensioned manner from an anchorage (108), said damping arrangement (100) comprising a rigid damping action transfer device (112) which is positively connected to the cable (102) at a predetermined distance (L1) from said anchorage (108), and at least one damping device (110) extending in a damping ma...