US Patent Issued to Honeywell Safety Products USA on July 14 for "Sealed self-retracting lifeline" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,642, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell Safety Products USA Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Sealed self-retracting lifeline" was invented by Michael Fegley (Maple Grove, Minn.), Jeremy Fink (Anoka, Minn.), Jie Zhu (Shanghai) and Ning Qin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-retracting lifeline assembly (10) includes a housing (12), a shaft (14) fixed to the housing (12) against rotation, a drum (18) mounted for rotation on the shaft (14) and including a compartment (20) within the drum (18), a lifeline (22) wound on the drum (18), a brake module (24) carried on the shaft (14) and mounted within the compartment (20), and a ...