ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,051, issued on June 23.
"Automatic trailer hitch" was invented by Gregory Robert Baker (Hazard, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented is an automatic trailer hitch for enabling removable coupling between a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle. The automatic trailer hitch includes a base module, a vertical climbing module, linchpin modules configured for selectively driving the linchpins in an engaged position and a disengaged position, and a rotation module. The vertical climbing module is configured to vertically displace a hitch along a single axis. The plurality of linchpin modules is configured for selectively driving the li...