New Andersen WD hitch
A fellow camper bud showed me this. It's new and different. Anyone using one? Andersen WD hitches A U-tube video with the factory guy explaining it. You have to get past MR Truck doing his...
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JBarca wrote:
Is anyone an expert in patent searching?
This is claimed to have patent right on the Motion Dampening feature. I have looked and found a bunch of hitch stuff and even some by Andersen Mfg, just not this one.
If we can find the patent it may shed some light on the thought process behind the design.
Anyone with any hints on finding it?
Did a quick PTO search on "Anderson Hitch" as a patent Assignee, nothing showed up as an issued patent. The actual inventor(s) must be listed on the application, but unless you know the inventor your pretty much out of luck. The other patent list is applications filed more than 1 year ago and not issued or denied. Problem with searching that data base is the "assignee" isn't searchable for obvious reasons. (Makes it harder for competition to know what others are doing). What we used to do is search on the most known engineers at other companies along with the patent agents name we knew from previous patents. Not knowing any of that, the open patents list didn't give me any hits either.
it wouldn't suprise me if they have applied for a patent, but it hasn't issued yet given the time it usually takes to get a patent issued. if one was issued, they MUST list the patent number on the item in order to protect. The quickest patent I ever got was issued about 3 years after application, the longest took almost 7 years. My last patent was submitted in May 2006 and was finally issued in November 2011.
