ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,624, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Lift device" was invented by Harvey John Lunsman (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) and Perry Dennis Franz (Elk Mound, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift device including a body, a drive unit, an actuator, one or more output gears, and one or more bearing structures. The lift device has an attached state and a detached state. In the attached state, the lift device is removably attached to and may translate vertically along one or more vertical columns having a first side including a linear gear and a second side opposite the first side. The ...