US Patent Issued to SAF-HOLLAND on Aug. 19 for "Adapter arrangement for a semitrailer train arrangement" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,318, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAF-HOLLAND GmbH (Bessenbach, Germany).

"Adapter arrangement for a semitrailer train arrangement" was invented by Alan Feltham (Schweiz, Switzerland), Randy Kubler (Gottmadingen, Germany) and Mario Sebastian Koster (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter arrangement, in particular fifth wheel adapter arrangement, for a semitrailer train, comprising a base body, a coupling arrangement, in particular a fifth wheel coupling plate, and a king pin, wherein the king pin is fixed indirectly and/or directly to the base body, wherein in particular the coupling arrangement...