ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,417, issued on July 21, was assigned to INNOVA PATENT GMBH (Wolfurt, Austria).
"Cableway for transporting goods" was invented by Jari Hoeck (Hard, Austria) and Gerd Dur (Bildstein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circulating cableway having at least two cableway stations and a plurality of cableway vehicles which can be moved between the cableway stations with a conveyor cable, wherein each cableway vehicle has a cabin for receiving objects, and wherein a control unit is provided for controlling the circulating cableway, also includes a first detection device in at least a first of the at least two cableway stations configur...