US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Pneumatic trailing beam suspension with a bolted axle connection, thus without welding the axle to the trailing arm-beams" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,154, issued on July 14.

"Pneumatic trailing beam suspension with a bolted axle connection, thus without welding the axle to the trailing arm-beams" was invented by Jason M. Klein (Springfield, Mo.) and Kevin C. Schlack (Ozark, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic trailing beam suspension invention has an axle provided with a left and right welded-on landing pads. Each landing pad has a spaced pair of upper semi-circular axle-seat races that cup about a quarter of the axle's sidewall, terminate in a lower box foot. The left and trailing arm-beams are formed with recessed seat pockets for the landing pads' box feet to nest/do...