ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,050, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Terox AS (Flekkefjord, Norway).

"Cable storage" was invented by Kjell Vidar Hamre (Flekkefjord, Norway), Philipp Loschner (Chemnitz, Germany) and Michael Tumpner (Aue, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable storage has a stationary first deflection roller system, a second deflection roller system which is linearly movable relative to the first deflection roller system, and an electric cable which is looped around the first deflection roller system and the second deflection roller system. The cable storage has a mast on which the first deflection roller system and the second deflection rol...