According to the US Patent & Trademark Office: “A crane installation, especially a container crane, includes at least one hoist mechanism provided with at least one motor for lifting and lowering a load suspended from the hoist mechanism. The operation of the hoist mechanism is controlled by a control unit which receives load-specific information signals from a device. The load-specific information signals are determined on the basis of load-dependent measuring signals generated by a load measuring assembly associated with the hoist mechanism.”
The inventors were issued US Patent Number 7,206,662 on April 17.
The patent has been assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munchen, Germany.
The original application was filed on January 25 2005.
