ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,107, issued on June 24, was assigned to Konecranes Global Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).
"Wheel block, in particular for a travelling crane" was invented by Lukas Pieper (Bochum, Germany) and Moritz Sagurna (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel block, preferably for an overhead traveling crane, wherein the wheel block comprises a housing and a wheel mounted in the housing and protruding out of the housing. In order to allow for proactive maintenance of the wheel with a simple checking process and simultaneously reliable loading and, in particular, overloading detection and identification, according to the invention, the...