ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,737, issued on May 12, was assigned to Remmen Technologies (Port Perry, Canada).
"Braking device" was invented by Michael Putz (Sebersdorf, Austria) and Thomas Zipper (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake device and a machine including the brake device. The brake device includes an actuator, a transmission, an expander device, a brake lining and a frictional surface. The actuator moves in a limited actuator actuation region, and in at least part of the actuator actuation region, the actuator turns the expander device about at least one fulcrum via the transmission. In at least part of the actuator actuation region, for the pu...