ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,216, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Wheel chock system" was invented by Dinkar Nalawade (Bangalore, India) and Satheesha Krishna (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel chock system. In one aspect of the invention, an actuator is configured to move a pair of wheel chocks to an activated position in which motion of the wheel is prevented. A control unit controls the actuator and, based upon determination that a plurality of predefined conditions are met, the control unit may after having received an operator-initiated activation request, cause the actuator to move the wheel...