US Patent Issued to Liebherr-Components Biberach on Oct. 7 for "Cable winch, method for winding a cable winch of this type, and crane having a cable winch" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,949, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH (Biberach an der Riss, Germany).

"Cable winch, method for winding a cable winch of this type, and crane having a cable winch" was invented by Thomas Schmid (Daugendorf, Germany) and Gerd Hepp (Unterstadion, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for winding a cable winch, in which method a plurality of cable winding layers is wound one over the other, a plurality of cables being wound, in multiple strands, onto the same winding region of the cable winch such that the cables are adjacent to each other in the same cable winding lay...