US Patent Issued to Lankhorst Touwfabrieken on Oct. 14 for "Rope having an end connector segment comprising two rope-branches with unequal lengths" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,133, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lankhorst Touwfabrieken B.V. (Sneek, Netherlands).

"Rope having an end connector segment comprising two rope-branches with unequal lengths" was invented by Pieter De Jager (Sliedrecht, Netherlands) and Adrianus Stout (Alblasserdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rope includes a main rope segment, a branching position and an end connector segment, wherein the end connector segment includes a first rope-branch, which includes a first rope-branch-eye, and a second rope-branch, which includes a second rope-branch-eye, wherein an attainable maximum first effective length of the first r...