US Patent Issued to POMA on Aug. 11 for "Cable transportation installation with improved safety, method for detecting an event on a cable and method for manufacturing one such installation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,404, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to POMA (Voreppe, France).

"Cable transportation installation with improved safety, method for detecting an event on a cable and method for manufacturing one such installation" was invented by Clemence Seve (Saint Laurent du Pont, France), Pierre Bonomini (Voiron, France) and Gilles Billet (Voiron, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cable transportation installation includes a cable supported by several sheaves of several pillars. At least one pillar is provided with at least one optical fuse defining first and second states enabling or preventing flow of an optical signal. A detection devi...