ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,859, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Explicatis GmbH (Cologne, Germany).
"Drive system, swing hammock system, and method for simulating an elastic tensioning element" was invented by Rene Keller (Odenthal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drive system (2) for a spring cradle system (100), in particular for a child's or baby's spring cradle, for generating an oscillating movement, comprising a tension element (4) with a distal end adapted to be fixed to an oscillating element, a drive unit (21) adapted to increase and decrease a free length of the tension element (4) to change a position of the oscillating element relative ...