ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,499, issued on May 12.
"Trailer coupler lock with interchangeable adapter" was invented by Ronald Lee Jr. (Ruskin, Fla.), Anthony Sansone (Parrish, Fla.) and Bradly Martin (Sarasota, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailer coupler lock includes a shell, a coupler engagement plug, a locking mechanism and an adapter. The shell includes a cove configured to receive a receptacle of a trailer coupler, a plug channel in which a plug moves linearly from extended position to a retracted position, and a lock channel in which a locking mechanism is movable from a locked position to an unlocked position. In the locked position, the locking...