US Patent Issued on June 17 for "Trucks and trailers with power conversion elements and suspension systems accommodating power conversion elements inboard of a wheel" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,458, issued on June 17.

"Trucks and trailers with power conversion elements and suspension systems accommodating power conversion elements inboard of a wheel" was invented by Santo A. Padula (Owings Mills, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A truck or trailer includes a wheel, a stub axle spindle extending through the wheel and having a through bore, a step-up drive ratio unit inboard of said stub-axle spindle, an axle shaft extending through the through bore of the stub-axle spindle, and a power conversion unit operatively connected to the step-up drive ratio unit. The axle shaft is operatively connected to the step-up drive ratio u...