US Patent Issued to Tie Down on Sept. 23 for "Fall protection system" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,743, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tie Down Inc. (Atlanta).

"Fall protection system" was invented by Charles J. MacKarvich (Atlanta) and Justin Hikaru Alcober (Smyrna, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall protection system includes a guardrail support frame comprising: a substantially vertical first guardrail post; a substantially vertical second guardrail post; and a substantially vertical reinforcement post disposed between the first and second guardrail posts; a first pillar attachment assembly configured to secure the first guardrail post to a first structural component and a second pillar attachment assembly configur...