US Patent Issued to MSA Technology on June 9 for "Systems and methods for providing a consolidated PFL or SRL drum" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,073, issued on June 9, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for providing a consolidated PFL or SRL drum" was invented by Mitchell H. Hetrich (Greenville, Pa.), Michael D. Monahan (Cranberry Township, Pa.) and Bryan Kroh (Harmony, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a fall limiting device. An embodiment includes a housing and a rotatable drum comprising an axle and two side portions, said rotatable drum comprising a single contiguous material piece. A retractable member is held, at least in part, within the housing via winding around the rotatable drum w...