US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Ski attachment" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,439, issued on July 14.

"Ski attachment" was invented by Michael Benjamin McHugh (Pointe-Claire, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ski attachment attachable to a wheel defining a nadir section, the ski attachment comprising: an elongated ski defining a longitudinal axis, the ski having a deck and a base, the ski defining longitudinally opposed nose and tail ends; a wheel mount for mounting the wheel to the ski at a location intermediate the nose and tail ends, the wheel mount defining a nadir receiving portion for receiving the nadir section; and a wheel lock for locking the wheel to the wheel mount; wherein the base is configu...