US Patent Issued to ACPS Automotive on March 31 for "Trailer coupling with rest position locking device and detector unit" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,622, issued on March 31, was assigned to ACPS Automotive GmbH (Germany).

"Trailer coupling with rest position locking device and detector unit" was invented by Wolfgang Gentner (Steinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a trailer coupling, in order to detect the rest position and/or the operating position by means of an unambiguous signal, it is proposed that a detector unit is associated with the rest position locking device, said detector unit detecting at least one active position of the rest position locking device."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/332,332.

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