US Patent Issued to SAF-HOLLAND on Jan. 27 for "Fifth wheel, method for determining a load condition and/or a wear condition of a fifth wheel and method for upgrading a fifth wheel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,141, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAF-HOLLAND GmbH (Bessenbach, Germany).

"Fifth wheel, method for determining a load condition and/or a wear condition of a fifth wheel and method for upgrading a fifth wheel" was invented by Daniel Dominik Dieter (Griesheim, Germany), Dominik HaBler (Munich), Kilian Kobschall (Mainz, Germany), Bjorn Poss (Windesheim, Germany), Patrick Scholl (Hirschhorn, Germany), Gunnar Vorwerk-Handing (Darmstadt, Germany) and Mario Sebastian Koster (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fifth wheel configured to reversibly couple a trailer to a tractor including a coupling plate config...