ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,730, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEUFELBERGER FIBER ROPE GMBH (Wels, Austria).
"Antistatic cover-core-rope" was invented by Erich Ruhrnossl (Haid, Austria), Bjorn Ernst (Gmunden, Austria), Susanna Schiemer (Linz, Austria) and Roland Dornetshuber (Tollet, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a rope (3) made of a textile fiber material, comprising a rope core (6) and a sheath (7) surrounding the rope core (6), wherein the rope (3) comprises at least one antistatic multifilament yarn (5) or antistatic monofilament that is located in the rope core (6), in the sheath (7), in an intermediate sheath (8) lo...