ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,899, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Carrying arrangement" was invented by Markus Pfeifer (Winnenden, Germany), Simon Haug (Waiblingen-Hohenacker, Germany), Harald Mang (Winnenden, Germany), Maren Langhammer (Leutenbach, Germany), Tobias Wurschum (Remseck am Neckar, Germany) and Samuel Finkbeiner (Schwaikheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrying arrangement for carrying loads, in particular tools and/or implements, includes at least one carrying belt, in particular a shoulder belt and/or a hip belt, on the body of a user. The length of the carrying belt is adjustable ...