US Patent Issued to Inventio on Aug. 26 for "People-transporting system having a guide means in the entry regions" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,020, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"People-transporting system having a guide means in the entry regions" was invented by Georg Wagenleitner (RoBleithen, Austria), Stefan Gorcs (Kutniky, Austria) and Gerhard Kleewein (Pressbaum, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a passenger transport system which is designed as a moving walkway or escalator. The passenger transport system has two access regions and a conveyance region, each of the two access regions having a walking-accessible surface. At least one of the walking-accessible regions is provided with a guide devi...