ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,133, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MRM HK Ltd. (Western District, Hong Kong).
"Fall arrest safety net" was invented by Robert Wesley Schlipper (Western District, Hong Kong) and Luke Ritchie (Western District, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall arrest safety net assembly has the form of a wire net bag constructed with a closed end and an opposing mouth drawn closed by a noose formed on a line by a running coupler fixed on one end of the line. A choker plate has two sides between which a plurality of openings extend openings that extend between the opposing sides. A line portion loops through the openings in the choke...