ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,144, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BODE-DIE TUR GMBH (Kassel, Germany).
"Tread system for a vehicle" was invented by Marco Cimmino (Kassel, Germany) and Ulrich Arend (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tread system for a vehicle includes a tread plate, which is movable, underneath a tread strip edge of the vehicle, from a retracted position in the direction towards a deployed position and vice versa along a deployment axis extending perpendicularly to the tread strip edge. The tread plate has a tread surface capable of bearing tread loads, on which an anti-slip profile is formed, wherein the anti-slip profile has p...