ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,852, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Liftwave Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"Torque free articulated tension transmission" was invented by Blake Sessions (Boston), Toomas Sepp (Somerville, Mass.), Nolan Hobart (Somerville, Mass.), Emily Ann Heidlauf (Newton, Mass.) and John Pryor Strauss (Rindge, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure involves a joint system and a tension transmission system. The joint system includes a sheave that rotates about an axis, a first tension member at least partially wrapped around the sheave in a first direction creating an angle between the direction of entry of the tension membe...