US Patent Issued to IM DEVELOPMENT D.O.O. on Oct. 14 for "Weightlifting assistance device with safety feature" (Croatian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,716, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to IM DEVELOPMENT D.O.O. (Rijeka, Croatia).

"Weightlifting assistance device with safety feature" was invented by Ivan Mihelcic (Kostrena, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weightlifting assistance device for mounting on a rack, where the device weightlifting assistance 10 can comprise a base, a connector, a top, fixation frames, a fixer or coupler to affix or couple the weightlifting assistance device to the rack, a locking gas spring, and one or more guides and corresponding bushing. The top, which can be movable, can be equipped with slidable inserted barbell holder fixed thereto via a d...