US Patent Issued to SMARTREND MANUFACTURING GROUP (SMG) on July 15 for "School bus stop arm and drive unit therefor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,425, issued on July 15, was assigned to SMARTREND MANUFACTURING GROUP (SMG) INC. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"School bus stop arm and drive unit therefor" was invented by Michael Yudelevich (Winnipeg, Canada), Kevin Peter Smith (Winnipeg, Canada), Bradley Dale Brown (Winnipeg, Canada), Andrew Allan Clark McKay (Winnipeg, Canada), Cam Forman (Winnipeg, Canada) and David Beernaert (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A school bus stop arm and drive unit therefor are disclosed. The stop arm includes a stop sign and a drive unit for moving the stop sign between a retracted position and a deployed position. In some embodiments the sto...