US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 15 for "Load-compensating device for a lifting application with an object to be lifted or lowered" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,768, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Load-compensating device for a lifting application with an object to be lifted or lowered" was invented by Steven Walther (Saalfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load-compensating device for a lifting application with an object to be lifted or lowered includes a movable platform, wherein the platform carries the object and, for purposes of load compensation, the platform is supported by at least one spring element that acts on a spreading unit which, in order to achieve spreading, transfers a spring force of the spring element into a scissors arrangement, where...