ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,677, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DYWIDAG-SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Unterschleissheim, Germany).

"Cable bending limiting arrangement and combination of a cable bending limiting arrangement with a cable, an anchorage, a compacting clamp unit and a recess pipe" was invented by Werner Brand (Freising, Germany) and Marcus Schraml (Erding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable bending limiting arrangement is provided for an anchoring unit including an anchorage, a cable including a plurality of wires and/or strands extending in a tensioned manner from the anchorage, a compacting clamp unit adapted for compacting the wir...