US Patent Issued to Hog Slat on May 12 for "Fall arrest system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,100, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hog Slat Inc. (Newton Grove, N.C.).

"Fall arrest system" was invented by James M. Adermann (Clinton, N.C.) and Spencer Westerbeek (Clinton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall arrest system is disclosed. In one aspect, a structure may include a collar on the roof portion of the structure. A U or V-shaped anchor point has leaves or legs of the U or V-shape attached to spaced-apart locations on the collar. A cable may be attached to the anchor point and extended off the roof and down a side of the structure proximate to a ladder. A distal end of the cable may be tensioned by a cable tensione...