ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,760, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verton IP PTY LTD (Archerfield, Australia).

"Arrangements for rotational apparatus" was invented by Stanley Thomson (Archerfield, Australia), Joel Kok (Archerfield, Australia), Hefin Evans (Archerfield, Australia) and Gerrard Hickson (Archerfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling rotational orientation of a load suspended from the apparatus comprises a housing or framework for coupling to the load. At least one torque generating device is mounted to the housing or framework. A motorized frictionless swivel is coupled directly or indirectly to the housing or ...