US Patent Issued to Daimler Truck on March 11 for "Method for locking and releasing a securing device of a vehicle coupling, theft prevention system, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,674, issued on March 11, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Method for locking and releasing a securing device of a vehicle coupling, theft prevention system, and vehicle" was invented by Nicolai Spohrer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Marco Busch (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Sebastian Dingler (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany) and Stefan Heyer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locking and releasing a securing device of a vehicle coupling of a vehicle includes switching the securing device between a locked state and a released state by a contro...