US Patent Issued to Salewa Sport on March 11 for "Heel unit for a gliding board binding having Mz release via a cam body" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,246, issued on March 11, was assigned to Salewa Sport AG (Denges, Switzerland).

"Heel unit for a gliding board binding having Mz release via a cam body" was invented by Uwe Eckart (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heel unit including a base comprising a fastening arrangement for fastening to a gliding board, a binding body, and coupling means arranged on the binding body. The coupling means engage with a heel portion of a gliding board boot in a downhill position of the gliding board binding to securely hold the gliding board boot on the gliding board binding. The coupling means protrude in a longitudinal direction...