US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Connector system for operating a trailer jack and a hopper door actuator with a drill" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,208, issued on Sept. 1.

"Connector system for operating a trailer jack and a hopper door actuator with a drill" was invented by Steve Lewis (Butler, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector system for coupling a drill to an input shaft for a trailer-mounted mechanism includes a drill attachment member is elongated from a drill end to an output end of the drill attachment member. The drill attachment member is configured to be clamped by a chuck of a drill adjacent to the drill end. The drill attachment member has a notch extending into the output end and extending transversely through the drill attachment member. An input shaft...