ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,711, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to YOSHIKAWA KOGYO Co. LTD. (Fukuoka, Japan).
"System for confirming hooking state of safety harness" was invented by Kikuzo Sawada (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shinya Harano (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a new technique capable of determining whether or not a hook of a safety harness is used correctly, without causing complexity in the configurations of the hook and a safety rope. Specifically, provided is a system for confirming a hooking state of a safety harness, wherein a safety harness 10 comprises: a belt 11 to be worn on a body of a worker; a safety rope 12 connected t...