ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,111, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAF-HOLLAND GmbH (Bessenbach, Germany).
"Kingpin arrangement" was invented by Mario Sebastian Koster (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kingpin arrangement for arrangement a commercial vehicle trailer, includes a kingpin that extends in an extension direction, a stator rotationally fixed with respect to the kingpin and a rotor that includes (a plug connector adapted to be connectable or connected to a complementarily configured plug element of a towing vehicle, wherein the stator includes at least one connection that is connected to a distribution network of the trai...