US Patent Issued to KONECRANES GLOBAL on July 1 for "Lifting apparatus of crane and method of operation thereof" (Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,511, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONECRANES GLOBAL Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

"Lifting apparatus of crane and method of operation thereof" was invented by Simo Sakkinen (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Juhani Lukkari (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Lukas Pieper (Bochum, Germany) and Kai Hartmann (Gevelsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hoisting mechanism of a crane comprising at least one rope drum for a hoist rope, at least one hoist motor for driving the rope drum, a gearing coupled between the rope drum and the hoist motor, and having an input gear on the hoist motor side and an output gear on the rope drum side, and a brake for brakin...