ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,211, issued on March 25, was assigned to Frazier Industrial Co. (Long Valley, N.J.).

"Pallet cart safety structure and method" was invented by Domenick Iellimo (Forked River, N.J.) and Emery Louis (Jim) Kocsis (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure and method for safely loading and unloading pallet carts to and from multi-level commercial storage racks includes a security structure to catch the carts, in case they fall during the loading or unloading procedure. A pair of rail structures typically extends from the front to the rear of a storage bay. Pallet transportation carts travel on a lower surface of these...