ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,603, issued on June 17, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Automatic selectable trailer connection" was invented by Lionel Farres (Heyrieux, France) and Mattias Holmberg (Jamestown, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a pneumatic system for a truck having a first pair of couplers, typically gladhand couplers and a second pair of couplers, typically gladhand couplers, with only one pair used at a time for coupling a trailer, the system being able to detect which pair of glad hands a trailer is connected to. The present disclosure also relates to a truck comprising a pneumatic sys...