US Patent Issued to POMA on Feb. 17 for "Ferris wheel installation comprising a guide structure for gondolas having sliding ball joints" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,805, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to POMA (Voreppe, France).

"Ferris wheel installation comprising a guide structure for gondolas having sliding ball joints" was invented by Jean-Francois Mugnier (Voreppe, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gondola of a Ferris wheel installation is connected to a wheel rim structure of the Ferris wheel by means of a guide structure comprising at least one bearing that is connected to the wheel rim structure by two sliding ball joints which have slide axes that are parallel to one another and spaced apart from one another."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2022, under Application No. 17/808,5...