ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,937, issued on June 10, was assigned to Span Set Gesellschaft Fur Transportsysteme Und Technische Bander Mit Beschrankter Haftung & Co. KG (Ubach-Palenberg, Germany).
"Round sling" was invented by Volker Hombach (Monchengladbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A round sling for raising loads, consisting of a load-carrying inner nonwoven fabric, which inner nonwoven fabric is formed from a continuous roll of a plurality of supporting threads running substantially parallel to one another and a protective sleeve in the form of a textile protective tube surrounding the inner nonwoven fabric with a radial degree of freedom, the pr...