ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,785, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE TRUSTEE FOR ROFRAUS TRUST (Maroubra, Australia).

"Ascending mechanised access ramp (A-MAR)" was invented by Mircea Eugen Virgil Cociuban (Maroubra, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is an access ramp system for access between a first and a second object. The second object is elevated with respect to the first object. The system includes a supporting frame mountable to the first object; a casing box mounted to the supporting frame; a sliding ramp installed to slide inside the casing box; and a deployment mechanism for automatically moving the sliding ramp between a stand-by an...