ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,997, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Hans Kunz GmbH (Hard, Austria).
"Load transport system for transporting a load in a working space" was invented by Georg Klapper (Hard, Austria), Robert Lang (Innsbruck, Austria), Johannes Karl Eberharter (Satteins, Austria) and Roman Beer (Dornbirn, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load transport system having a load carrier and at least one load receiving device which for receiving the load is fastened to the load carrier, and at least three positioning cables and at least three suspension devices, each suspension device has at least one positioning cable winch for winding and unwindi...