ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,478, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Junttan Oy (Kuopio, Finland).

"Ram block arrangement and piling hammer using electric machine" was invented by Tomi Voutilainen (Kuopio, Finland) and Roni Ryyppo (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided ram block arrangement for a piling hammer (100a), comprising: a ram block (104) comprising a frame arrangement (106) for enclosing one or more ram weights therein, wherein the ram block (104) is configured movable by an electric machine (108)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2022, under Application No. 18/719,389.

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