ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,411, issued on Jan. 20.

"Adapter apparatus for a trailer jack" was invented by Roland Besler (Cambridge, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter apparatus for connecting a rotary drive to a trailer jack includes an inline gear reducer has an input shaft and an output shaft which are aligned with each other along a rotational axis and face opposite directions from each other. The inline gear reducer is configured to urge the output shaft to rotate at a reduced rotational speed compared to an input rotational speed of the input shaft. A handle is coupled to and extends radially away from the inline gear reducer. The handle inclu...