US Patent Issued to PITAGONE on March 3 for "Protection device against truck ramming attacks" (Belgian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,748, issued on March 3, was assigned to PITAGONE (Brussels).

"Protection device against truck ramming attacks" was invented by Marc Weissberg (Brussels) and Shimon Bretholz (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-ramming truck barrier element may include: an essentially horizontal arresting bar, and an essentially vertical pivot bar. The vertical pivot bar has at least three fasteners distributed along the length of each side. The arresting bar is rigidly connected to the pivot bar. Connecting bars are pivotably connected to the side of the pivot bar, and are being adapted to be cross-connected at different crossing...