ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,810, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Fall restraint apparatus for a grid framework structure" was invented by Andrew Selim (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrew Geake (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Dean Shields (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall restraint device for moving on a grid structure including a plurality of grid cells each having a length in a range 600-800 mm and a width in a range 400-600 mm, so defining a grid opening defined by a pair of adjacent tracks of a first set of parallel tracks and a pair of adjacent tracks of a second set of parallel t...