US Patent Issued to Outrider Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Motor stall and trailer lift" (Colorado, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,937, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Outrider Technologies Inc. (Henderson, Colo.).

"Motor stall and trailer lift" was invented by Tessa Ronan (Denver), Vittorio Ziparo (Golden, Colo.), Lawrence Klein (Bend, Ore.) and Ky Woodard (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method operated thereby may control a hydraulic pump to pump a hydraulic fluid into a chamber of a piston coupled to a fifth wheel of the tractor to raise the fifth wheel. The device, and method operated thereby, may sense, at intervals as the fifth wheel rises, a pressure value of the hydraulic fluid in the chamber. The device, and method operated thereb...