ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,508, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).
"Climbing system and method for operating a climbing system" was invented by Tobias Kolb (Altenstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A climbing system, in particular a self-climbing formwork system, comprising at least one climbing rail which is guided on at least two climbing shoes, wherein the climbing shoes can be fastened on and/or in a cured concreting section, and wherein the climbing shoes are designed to guide the climbing rail and/or to hold it at least with respect to a climbing direction, and an actuator. The at least one climbing rail has at lea...