ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,212, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TeleSwivel LLC (Durham, N.C.).
"Hitch apparatus and system" was invented by Carl Michael Anderson (Billings, Mont.), Corey Drew Rasmussen (Durham, N.C.), Mark Wesley Bevington (Yerington, Nev.), William David Woolf (Durham, N.C.), Ryan Matthew DelGizzi (Arvada, Colo.) and Cody Paul Charland (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hitch system for connecting a towed vehicle to a towing vehicle includes a hitch apparatus attached to the towing vehicle and a control system operably associated with the hitch apparatus. The hitch apparatus includes a frame movably secured to the towing vehi...