US Patent Issued to Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils on Feb. 24 for "Passenger restraint system for roller coasters" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,006, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A. (Monthey, Switzerland).

"Passenger restraint system for roller coasters" was invented by Alain Zurcher (Pampigny, Switzerland) and Eric Berra (Monthey, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger restraint system for roller coasters designed to maintain a passenger in an essentially seated or lying posture, with suspended feet. The passenger restraint system includes a fixed column and a seat column designed to support and hold the passenger, which seat column is coupled to the fixed column so as to be displaceable with respect to the fix...