ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,050, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schmitz Cargobull AG (Altenberge, Germany).
"Trailer with current collector" was invented by Martin Schanzmann (Bocholt, Germany), Carsten Kaup (Coesfeld, Germany) and Marnix Lannoije (Altenberge, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailer, in particular a utility trailer, for road vehicles on which an extendable current collector or an electrical contact element for an inverted current collector is placed."
The patent was filed on June 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/339,441.
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