ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,171, issued on June 23, was assigned to INNOVA PATENT GMBH (Wolfurt, Austria).

"Cableway having a limiting device" 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 cableway having at least one cableway station and having at least one cableway vehicle movable between cableway stations with a hauling cable, wherein a control unit is provided for controlling the cableway, the cableway including a limiting device configured adjacent an entry region of the cableway station and operable to limit a lateral pendulum movement of the cableway vehicle as the cableway vehicle enters the...