US Patent Issued to Intellectual Property Group on May 13 for "Automated lift axle lowering system and method for dump trucks" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,639, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intellectual Property Group LLC (Dunn, N.C.).

"Automated lift axle lowering system and method for dump trucks" was invented by James Patrick Godwin Jr. (Dunn, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system controls lift axles of an articulated dump truck to lower a designated lift axle when it senses the designated lift axle is in a raised position and the dump truck bed is at least partially raised. The designated lift axle is the lift axle closest to where a hydraulic piston that raises the bed connects to the dump truck frame. In one aspect, the control system additionally senses the we...