US Patent Issued to Vehicle Service Group on April 22 for "System for vehicle lift monitoring and prognostics" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,993, issued on April 22, was assigned to Vehicle Service Group LLC (Madison, Ind.).

"System for vehicle lift monitoring and prognostics" was invented by Darian Smith (Madison, Ind.), Rob Elliott (Madison, Ind.) and Austin Deuerling (Madison, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lift system includes a plurality of mobile lift columns each including a wireless communication system for sending and receiving wireless signals, each of the plurality of mobile lift columns further including an inclinometer for detecting an amount of tilt of the plurality of mobile lift columns. A remote control unit includes a wireless communication...