US Patent Issued to Overhead Door on June 30 for "Dock leveler with lip extender" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,441, issued on June 30, was assigned to Overhead Door Corp. (Lewisville, Texas).

"Dock leveler with lip extender" was invented by Keith T. Kee (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dock leveler comprises a face plate disposable adjacent a dock wall, a deck plate hingedly connected to the face plate, a lip assembly hingedly connected to the deck plate. The dock leveler further comprises a lip extender support coupled to the face plate, and a lip extender. The lip extender has a first end rotatably coupled to the lip assembly, and a second end selectively engageable with the lip extender support to extend the lip assembly with respe...