US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Deployable truck ramp with bladders" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,021, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Deployable truck ramp with bladders" was invented by Paul W. Alexander (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Wonhee Michael Kim (Royal Oak, Mich.), Craig A. Kollar (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Joseph M. Polewarczyk (Lake Orion, Mich.), Bhavesh Shah (Troy, Mich.) and Rafael Gabriel Casalduc (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable ramp is provided for a cargo loading system of a vehicle. The ramp includes one or more rigid element having a surface for supporting a load. The ramp further includes one or more bladders defining a chamber that is fluidly conn...