US Patent Issued to NIDECKER on March 25 for "Device for locking a binding to a snowboard comprising a pivoting locking lever" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,490, issued on March 25, was assigned to NIDECKER SA (Rolle, Switzerland).

"Device for locking a binding to a snowboard comprising a pivoting locking lever" was invented by Jean-Pierre Edmond (Monnetier-Mornex, France), David Fernandez (Grand-Lancy, Switzerland), Thierry Kunz (Saint-Prex, Switzerland) and Daniel Schmah (Etoy, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for locking a binding to a snowboard, comprising a disc, having a base attached to the snowboard and housed in an opening of a base of the binding and a lever, which is hinged to the base and pivots from an unlocking position to a locking position, wherein the...