US Patent Issued to New River Electrical Innovations on Oct. 14 for "Alarm activated safety device" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,287, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to New River Electrical Innovations LLC (Cloverdale, Va.).

"Alarm activated safety device" was invented by Johnny Lanning (Troutville, Va.), Mark Garofano (Camillus, N.Y.), Timothy Batty (Binghamton, N.Y.) and Barry Williams (Buchanan, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alarm activated safety device includes an enclosure. A longitudinal member having an anchorage point for coupling the alarm activated safety device to a work structure and a safety device connection point located thereon extends through the enclosure and is moveable between a first position with the safety device connection poin...