US Patent Issued to LIKO RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on March 17 for "Adjustable sling bars for subject lifting systems and methods for operating the same" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,986, issued on March 17, was assigned to LIKO RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AB (Lulea, Sweden).

"Adjustable sling bars for subject lifting systems and methods for operating the same" was invented by Jesse Newman (Batesville, Ind.), Marcus Linde (Ojebyn, Sweden), Andrew Dole (Batesville, Ind.), Jeffrey Scott Jelinek (Batesville, Ind.), Jonathan D. Turner (Dillsboro, Ind.), Jonathan K. Moenter (Batesville, Ind.) and Sriharsha Garapati (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sling bar assembly allows variable positioning of a sling on the sling bar assembly. Some sling bar assemblies include opposing sling bar members that are mova...