US Patent Issued to KONECRANES GLOBAL on Oct. 7 for "Lifting attachment for lifting containers" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,954, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KONECRANES GLOBAL Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

"Lifting attachment for lifting containers" was invented by Anders Nilsson (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Anders Sjostrand (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Hannu Lindfors (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Juhani Lukkari (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Ari Bertula (Hyvinkaa, Finland) and Turkka Heiska (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting attachment for lifting one or more containers, comprising a lifting attachment frame and an arm on each end of the lifting attachment frame, wherein the arm comprises an upper locking mechanism and a lower locking mechanism. Each arm further ...