US Patent Issued to Jungheinrich on Aug. 19 for "Industrial truck with a jaw coupling, a system including an industrial truck and a trailer, and a method for coupling a trailer to an industrial truck" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,079, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Industrial truck with a jaw coupling, a system including an industrial truck and a trailer, and a method for coupling a trailer to an industrial truck" was invented by Ralf Hak (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Rieckmann (Scharnebeck, Germany), Hinrich Meyer (Barnstedt, Germany), Gunnar Jahn (Hamburg, Germany), Konstantin Zizer (Luneburg, Germany) and Joscha Bassanello (Luneburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial truck (21) with a jaw coupling (1) that includes a coupling body (22) and a coupling pin (4), a system including such an industrial truck ...