US Patent Issued to Overhead Door on Aug. 11 for "Dock leveler with supported deck hinge" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,588, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Overhead Door Corp. (Lewisville, Texas).

"Dock leveler with supported deck hinge" was invented by Kirk E. Mellits (Fort Worth, Texas), Vincent M. Maggio (Lewistown, Pa.), Girish Malligere (Frisco, Texas) and Philip Sotak (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dock leveler for a loading dock. In some embodiments, the dock leveler may include a leg, a deck hinge bracket coupled to a top portion of the leg, a first stock plate coupled to the deck hinge bracket, and a deck hinge shaft coupled to the first stock plate. The first stock plate may extend upward from the deck hinge bracket ...