ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,601, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Igus GmbH (Cologne, Germany).
"Compact line guide for clean room applications and production method" was invented by Rainer Roessel (Buchholz, Germany), Andreas Hermey (Hennef, Germany) and Dominik Barten (Meckenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a conduit for a clean room application, comprising electric cables and an elongate flexible sheath which can be moved back and forth so as to form a deflecting bend between two towers, wherein the flexible sheath has a number of parallel receiving portions, each for at least one cable, wherein each receiving portion ext...