US Patent Issued to PACCAR on Aug. 11 for "Truck windows" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,229, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Truck windows" was invented by David Mielke (Bellevue, Wash.), Clifton Ellis (Bellevue, Wash.), David Leetz (Bellevue, Wash.) and Preston Godinich (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy-duty truck includes a cabin, a window having an upper edge region and a lower edge region, a hinge that rotatably couples the upper edge region of the window to the cabin, and a motor-driven actuator coupled to the lower edge region of the window such that actuation of the motor-driven actuator in a first direction moves the lower edge region of the window away fro...