US Patent Issued to OZ Lifting Products on Sept. 9 for "Telescoping crane and related methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,040, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OZ Lifting Products LLC (Winona, Minn.).

"Telescoping crane and related methods" was invented by Steve Napieralski (Winona, Minn.) and Gregory Lucas (La Crescent, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of cranes may include a first telescoping boom and a second telescoping boom coupled within the first telescoping boom. The second telescoping boom may be entirely within the first telescoping boom when the second telescoping boom is in a fully extended position."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/934,480.

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