ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,294, issued on May 5, was assigned to LINDNERHOF-TAKTIK GMBH (Lenggries, Germany).

"Component of a carrier system" was invented by Martin Schwager (Penzberg, Germany) and Josef Sixt (Lenggries, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a component of a carrier system comprising a belt element which is fastened to the component by a first end and comprises a second free end, by means of which it can be threaded through at least one loop of a second component, in order to fasten the components to one another, wherein the belt element comprises a textile belt strap and a plastics element. In this case, the pl...