US Patent Issued to 5IVE SPORTS on Sept. 29 for "Binding system for a touring ski binding" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,451, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to 5IVE SPORTS GMBH (Dolsach, Austria).

"Binding system for a touring ski binding" was invented by Markus Steinke (Ascholding/Dietramzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding system for a touring ski binding has a front jaw device and a rear jaw device for receiving a ski boot. In a descent mode, the front jaw device is open and the rear jaw device is closed, so that a retainer can receive a web of the ski boot, and a lever mechanism can fix a heel part of the ski boot. The rear jaw device with the lever mechanism exerts a contact pressure on the heel part of the ski boot along a bo...