US Patent Issued to Hendrickson USA on May 20 for "Slack adjuster assembly for heavy-duty vehicles" (North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,728, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hendrickson USA LLC (Schaumburg, Ill.).

"Slack adjuster assembly for heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Jay D. White (Lenoir, N.C.), David L. Schaeffer (Louisville, Ohio), Dhawal P. Dharaiya (Twinsburg, Ohio) and Wyatt R. Weekley (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slack adjuster assembly for heavy-duty vehicles, the slack adjuster assembly comprising a slack adjuster and an inboard sealing assembly. The slack adjuster is disposed about and has an internal spline for receiving an external spline of an inboard end of a camshaft of a camshaft assembly of the heavy-duty vehicle. The i...