US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on July 28 for "Load transfer stations" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,746, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Load transfer stations" was invented by Eric D. Betz (Clintonville, Wis.) and David W. Archer (Hortonville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire apparatus includes a chassis and a ladder assembly coupled to the chassis. The ladder assembly includes a first ladder section, a second ladder section slidably coupled to the first ladder section, a first support pivotably coupled to the first ladder section, and a second support fixedly coupled to the first ladder section. The first support and the second support are each configured to limit vertical movement of ...