US Patent Issued to Jost-Werke Deutschland on Aug. 11 for "Coupling device for a traction vehicle with an object detection means attached to it" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,443, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Jost-Werke Deutschland GmbH (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

"Coupling device for a traction vehicle with an object detection means attached to it" was invented by Mark Muller (Frankfurt, Germany), Benjamin Kaufhold (Seeburg, Germany), Steffen Haber (Gross-Gerau, Germany), Stephan Gitzen (Riedstadt, Germany) and Anton Schlemm (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling device for a towing vehicle with an object detection device attached to the coupling device, wherein the coupling device has a coupling body in form of a fifth wheel plate and a locking mechanism, with which a coupli...