US Patent Issued to Grote Industries on March 17 for "Trailer lighting outage detection circuit" (Indiana, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,373, issued on March 17, was assigned to Grote Industries Inc. (Madison, Ind.).

"Trailer lighting outage detection circuit" was invented by Timothy W. Brooks (Madison, Ind.), Eric Thorstensen (Madison, Ind.) and Christopher Busse (Madison, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle LED lighting outage detection circuit is disclosed for detecting a fault in the LED light and automatically increasing the power drawn from the light power supply in response to the fault. A complementary detection circuit is also disclosed for detecting the increased power draw and signaling a fault to an operator. The increased power draw can be sel...