US Patent Issued to HORNET ACQUISITIONCO on Jan. 13 for "Augmented hoist cable cut algorithm" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,354, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HORNET ACQUISITIONCO LLC (Vancouver, Wash.).

"Augmented hoist cable cut algorithm" was invented by Sridhar Hariram (Bangalore, India), Rajagopal Kalathur Srinivasan (Chandler, Ariz.), Greeshma Nellikkurussi Kalarikkal (Kerala, India) and Manju Maheve (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a hoist and hook assembly may method comprising determining a clutch slip via a clutch sensor, determining an overload via a load sensor, and cutting a cable coupled to the hoist and hook assembly in response to the clutch slip determination and the overload determin...