ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,699, issued on July 14, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Support structure comprising an alignment device for support structure section connection regions" was invented by Peter Sefcsik (Gyor, Hungary), Christoph Makovec (Wiener Neustadt, Austria) and Gerhard Kleewein (Pressbaum, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a support structure of a passenger transport system which is designed an escalator or moving walkway and comprises an alignment device for two support structure sections of the support structure to be connected to one another. The alignment device comprises a first alignme...