US Patent Issued to MANITOU BF on Dec. 2 for "Basket, notably aerial basket lifting device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,152, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MANITOU BF (Ancenis, France).

"Basket, notably aerial basket lifting device" was invented by Francois Mellerin (Ancenis, France) and Steve Charron (Ancenis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Basket (1) comprising: a platform (7), a drive system (2) for moving the platform (7), a control desk (3) equipped with controls (4) of the system (2), a flexible safety link (5), two retaining systems (6) for keeping the link (5) in a position in which the link (5) extends across the platform (7), a detection device for detecting deformation of the link (5), having a detection member configured so that, ...