US Patent Issued to The Braun on Aug. 11 for "In-floor ramp assembly with overhead rail, lateral guides, and energy absorbing end stops" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,601, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Braun Corp. (Winamac, Ind.).

"In-floor ramp assembly with overhead rail, lateral guides, and energy absorbing end stops" was invented by Scott Stranko (Noblesville, Ind.), Robert Earl Bettcher III (Winamac, Ind.) and Justin Hargraves (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ramp assembly includes a guide rail at least partially disposed in a void space between ramp platform edge guards, above a ramp platform, and below a ramp cover to reduce the overall height/thickness of the ramp assembly as compared to prior art ramp assemblies that locate guide rails below the ramp platform. A tra...