ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,712, issued on May 27, was assigned to JOST-WERKE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).
"Cable routing device" was invented by Jose Manuel Alguera (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Rudolf Schlotthauer (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) and Paul Hansen (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable routing device for connecting a line strand to a carrier element which can be moved with respect to the vehicle, wherein the cable routing device has a carrier element, fastened pivotably to the vehicle, and a cable store, in which at least part of the line strand is accommodated. Based on the problem of providing a cable routing device of ...