ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,433, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IQM Systems Pty Ltd (Prestons, Australia).
"Scaffold safety device and monitoring system" was invented by Penglei Dai (Prestons, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scaffold safety device (120) has a body (122) having an engagement formation (124) configured to engage with an element (20, 72) of a scaffold assembly (10). The device (120) also has a pressure sensor (126) configured to detect when the body is disengaged from the scaffold assembly. The engagement formation includes first and second arms (128, 130) extending away from the body. The arms are separated by a cavity (134). The cav...