ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,680, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Grote Industries Inc. (Madison, Ind.).

"Adapter for selecting lamp function in a truck trailer" was invented by Sankalp Pampattiwar (Madison, Ind.), Yogesh Kubal (Madison, Ind.), Shengjie Tang (Madison, Ind.) and Cesar Perez-Bolivar (Madison, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for use with components of a truck trailer. The adapter may include multiple input terminals corresponding with multiple terminals of a trailer component socket of a trailer, and multiple output terminals configured to electrically connect with corresponding input terminals of a trailer component. The adapter ...