US Patent Issued to Konecranes Global on Feb. 4 for "Support for a trolley, and overhead transport device having such a support" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,005, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Konecranes Global Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

"Support for a trolley, and overhead transport device having such a support" was invented by Christoph PaBmann (Dortmund, Germany), Bastian Wiehagen (Hagen, Germany), Marian Witte (Dortmund, Germany) and Sven Muller (Breckerfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support for a trolley, having a running surface that is formed on the support for the trolley, an upper chord, a lower chord and braces that connect said chords together, wherein the braces are designed to be flat, and each brace has a main surface that faces away from the support longi...