ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,251, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).
"Handrail for an escalator or a moving walkway" was invented by Csaba Boros (Dunajska Streda, Slovak Republic) and Georg Wagenleitner (RoBleithen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a handrail for a passenger transportation system in the form of an escalator or moving walkway. The handrail can include a sheet metal strip having two edge portions and a middle portion that is located between the two edge portions. The edge portions can each bent to form a bead, and the middle portion can form a handrail back extending between the...