US Patent Issued to SAF-Holland on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for lowering and raising a trailer" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,983, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAF-Holland Inc. (Muskegon, Mich.).

"Apparatus and method for lowering and raising a trailer" was invented by William J. Hicks (Muskegon, Mich.), Andrew L. Wallner (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Tianyu Ling (Allegan, Mich.) and Jeffrey S. Kemppainen (Kent City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear assembly includes a leg assembly, a gear assembly configured to telescopingly move a second leg portion with respect to a first leg portion, and a drive assembly including a gear arrangement configured to drive the drive shaft of the gear assembly at a high speed and low torque configuration an...