US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on March 25 for "Automatic wheel grid" (Maryland, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,945, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Automatic wheel grid" was invented by Bradley S. Kresge (Hagerstown, Md.) and Todd Werner (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel grid includes a crossbar configured to be coupled to a boom of a tow vehicle, the crossbar extending in a lateral direction from a centerline to a distal tip, and an L-arm rotatably coupled to the crossbar at a proximal end of the L-arm and configured to rotate about a rotation axis from an engaged position to a stowed position. As the L-arm rotates from the engaged position to the stowed position, the L-arm intersects ...