ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,355, issued on June 10, was assigned to Progress Mfg. LLC (Provo, Utah).

"System and method for measuring weights of vehicles and trailers" was invented by Jed K. Anderson (Lindon, Utah), David F. Lundgreen (Spanish Fork, Utah) and Jason R. Harper (Spanish Fork, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic jack having a piston, configured to lift at least a portion of a vehicle or trailer, and a housing, where the housing includes a high pressure fluid chamber configured to receive at least a portion of the piston, and where increasing fluid pressure within the high pressure chamber moves the piston further out of the housing. The...