ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,247, issued on April 21, was assigned to igus SE & Co. KG (Cologne, Germany).
"Energy chain having a skid, and skid retrofittable therefor" was invented by Stefan Strack (Konigswinter, Germany), Jorg Dommnik (Cologne, Germany) and Andreas Hermey (Hennef, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy chain with skids which are each fastened to a cross bar by means of a holding device and which each reach over a narrow side of a side plate, as well as to a retrofittable skid per se. At both of its ends the cross bar has in each case a widening towards the side plate. The holding device has two opposing holding elements, which are s...