US Patent Issued to komax Holding on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for untwisting and smoothing a cable end of a twisted cable" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,825, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to komax Holding AG (Dierikon, Switzerland).

"Method and device for untwisting and smoothing a cable end of a twisted cable" was invented by Daniel Gut (Weggis, Switzerland) and Andras Losonczy (Meierskappel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device untwists and smooths a cable end of a cable formed from single lines twisted in a twisting direction, using the device. The device includes an untwisting gripper having first and second untwisting jaws; a clamping gripper upwards of the untwisting gripper in the cable run having first and second clamping plates; and a cable grip...