US Patent Issued to LOADGATE INDUSTRIES on Sept. 16 for "Safety gates for elevated platforms, and related methods of use" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,170, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LOADGATE INDUSTRIES LTD. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Safety gates for elevated platforms, and related methods of use" was invented by Munsoor Mirza (Edmonton, Canada), Barrett Ingram (Leduc, Canada), Jonathan Breton (Edmonton, Canada) and Ken Hardman (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety gate has: a structural frame including a pair of columns spaced from one another along a peripheral edge of an elevated platform to define a ledge entrance to a staging area of the elevated platform; a ledge gate; and a staging gate; and in which the ledge gate and the staging gate are connected ...