ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,013, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Geobrugg AG (Romanshorn, Switzerland).
"Energy-absorption device, support, cable brake, safety net construction and method" was invented by Marcel Sennhauser (Wittenbach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy absorption device for absorbing at least a portion of impact energy occurring in an impact of an impact body in a safety net construction includes at least one cable guiding unit forming at least one cable receiving region for receiving and/or guiding at least one cable, and further includes at least one energy absorption element, arranged in the cable receiving region and for...