US Patent Issued to Innova Patent on March 17 for "Cableway with a vehicle having a closure drive and failsafe locking monitoring" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,897, issued on March 17, was assigned to Innova Patent GmbH (Wolfurt, Austria).

"Cableway with a vehicle having a closure drive and failsafe locking monitoring" was invented by Daniel Pfeifer (Sankt Anton am Arlberg, Austria), Clemens Mohr (Wolfurt, Austria) and Helmut Nagel (Hochst, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For reliable, failsafe monitoring of the locking of a closure device of a vehicle of a cableway is disclosed in which provision is made for an electrical connection to be established between a vehicle powerline modem on the vehicle and a station powerline modem, which is connected to the cableway controller, via a ...