ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,641, issued on June 9.

"Car transport unit for a car of a passenger transport system and method for producing a shaft of a passenger transport system" was invented by Torsten Nitsche (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A car transport unit for a car of a passenger transport system includes the car, a shaft segment of the passenger transport system, and a plurality of detachable transport devices. The car is arranged in the shaft segment and is connected to the shaft segment in a safe-to-transport manner using the transport devices."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2021, under Application No. 18/255,114.

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