US Patent Issued to POMA on May 13 for "Cable vehicle transport facility and method for measuring an information item relating to such a facility" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,863, issued on May 13, was assigned to POMA (Voreppe, France).

"Cable vehicle transport facility and method for measuring an information item relating to such a facility" was invented by Guillaume Minne (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle transportation installation by cable comprising a cable for hauling a vehicle, a fixedly mounted frame, a bull-wheel coupled to the cable and fitted rotatably on the frame so as to enable the cable to be driven, and a measurement device configured to measure at least one data item concerning movement of the bull-wheel, the measurement device being installed on the bull-wheel."...