ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,460, issued on June 30, was assigned to Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH (Biberach an der Riss, Germany).
"Crane" was invented by Tobias Scholz (Biberach, Germany) and Sebastian Sturm (Mittelbiberach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a crane, for example in the form of a tower crane, telescopic boom crane or port crane, comprising a load holding means which is hinged to a hoist rope and by means of which rope can be lifted and lowered, the load holding means having a rotary drive for rotating a load coupling part with respect to a rope hinge part hinged to said hoist rope about an upright load holdin...