ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,004, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH (Bremen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).
"Transport box for setting down a watercraft" was invented by Christian Ruehle (Lilienthal, Germany) and Malte Sackmann (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport box may be utilized to set down a watercraft into water with a traction mechanism, with a support for securing the traction mechanism for lowering the transport box, and with a frame that is designed to receive the watercraft in the transport box. The transport box is configured to receive an upper side of the watercraft and to set the watercr...