US Patent Issued to Momentive Performance Materials on Sept. 9 for "Pallet for transport of drums" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,973, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Momentive Performance Materials GmbH (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Pallet for transport of drums" was invented by John Glaser (Halfmoon, N.Y.), Matthias Reimann (Dormagen, Germany) and Christian Schmolke (Wermelskirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The patent application concerns a drum pallet (10) suitable for positioning one drum or a plurality of drums thereon, wherein the pallet has a deck (11), skids (2) and a plurality of blocks (12), coupling the deck with the skids, thereby forming a gap (5) therebetween for receiving a lifting member. The deck and the plurality of blocks form one...