ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,934, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Leitner S.P.A. (Vipiteno, Italy).
"Hybrid cable/rail transportation system" was invented by Nikolaus Erharter (San Candido, Italy), Hartmut Wieser (Racines, Italy) and Giuseppe Conte (Bolzano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cable/rail transportation system comprising: at least one portion of the system configured as a cable transportation system comprising at least one supporting cable; at least one portion of the system configured as a rail transportation system comprising at least one rail, wherein the system portion configured as a cable transportation system is upstream and/or ...