ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,822, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEA6 ENERGY PVT. LTD. (Bangalore, India).
"Braid separation apparatus" was invented by Siddarth Koppal (Bangalore, India), Jiju Thomas (Kerala, India) and Nelson Vadassery (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braid separation apparatus for separating rope strands of a braided rope, thereby allowing reuse of the separated rope strands, is provided and may include an input assembly configured to move a braided rope made of at least three rope strands, into the apparatus. Further, the apparatus may comprise three or more winding carriers, each being coupled to one of the rope stran...