ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,260, issued on May 20, was assigned to Grote Industries Inc. (Madison, Ind.).
"Cable system for a truck trailer" was invented by Adam Slade (Madison, Ind.), Sankalp Pampattiwar (Madison, Ind.) and Cesar Perez-Bolivar (Madison, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable system for a truck trailer for reducing the number and/or size of wiring in a commercial trailer cable system from seven to four, three, or two, while also facilitating bidirectional communication with all connected electronic devices in the trailer. The cable system has a ground cable, a power cable, and zero, one or two additional communication cables that may carry...