ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,956, issued on March 31, was assigned to Overhead Door Corp. (Lewisville, Texas).
"Dock leveler with shimless pivot boss" was invented by Dor Gamliel (Dallas) and Jared W. Eller (Grapevine, 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 plurality of legs, a horizontally extending lower bracket coupled to a bottom region of each leg of the plurality of legs, a horizontally extending upper bracket coupled to an upper region of each leg of the plurality of legs, and a pivot boss coupled to the lower bracket. The pivot boss may include a first mounting plate co...