US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Oct. 6 for "System and method for fifth wheel height detection" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,868, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"System and method for fifth wheel height detection" was invented by Shreyansh Shethia (West Lafayette, Ind.), Alec Vucsko (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Andreas Schmid (Westpoint, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for displaying a height of a fifth wheel of a commercial vehicle includes a controller configured to receive a command to modify a height of the fifth wheel. Based on the received command, the controller rotates a boom arm coupled to the fifth wheel at a first end and a chassis at the second end. The rotation of the boom arm rotates...