ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,814, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).
"Arrangement" was invented by Jani Lietonen (Turku, Finland) and Esko Laihonen (Turku, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for attaching a falling post on a base structure, the post being rotatably movable between a standing and a recumbent position. The arrangement includes a stand, wherein the post is attached pivotally to the stand by a pin. The stand includes at least one groove arranged laterally in respect to the post, and the post has at least one projection extending in a lateral direction from the post. The at leas...