US Patent Issued to TRUCKLABS on Oct. 14 for "Deployable fairing for use with vehicles" (California, North Carolina, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,415, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TRUCKLABS INC. (Phoenix).

"Deployable fairing for use with vehicles" was invented by Daniel Burrows (San Mateo, Calif.), Burkley Uwe Kladde (Chandler, Ariz.), Dagan Alec Trnka (Durham, N.C.), Roger Lawrence LeMesurier (San Francisco) and Adam Joseph Baumgartner (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a deployable fairing system to a tractor trailer. The deployable fairing system includes an actuator used to extend the deployable fairing from an unextended configuration to an extended configuration to occupy a portion of a gap area that e...