ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,060, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Above rack cable pull system" was invented by Dario Fabio Bindi (Zurich, Switzerland), Thiago Yokoyama dos Santos (Zurich, Switzerland) and Mauricio Valerio (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for positioning cables within a server room, which includes a wire-pulley system which includes a wire operably coupled to a first pulley wheel and a second pulley wheel. The wire is looped around the first and second pulley wheel such that a point in the wire is laterally movable between the first and second pull...