ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,490, issued on March 24, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Yoke assembly for a coupler system" was invented by Stephane Szymanski (Neuville-en-Ferrain, France), Benjamin Guthrie (Duncan, S.C.), Dan Diaconu (Neuville-en-Ferrain, France), Timothy Edward Johnson (Duncan, S.C.) and Henry Lynn III (Duncan, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yoke assembly includes an outer housing having opposite front and rear ends and can define an interior chamber between the front end and the rear end. The yoke assembly also can include a guiding sliding bushing disposed in the interior chamber of the outer housing, ...