US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Modular sliding platform for a truck bed" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,317, issued on June 30.

"Modular sliding platform for a truck bed" was invented by Hugo Baeza (Center Valley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slidable truck bed platform provides an upper frame and a separate lower frame that operatively associate so that the upper frame is slidable relative to the lower frame between a retracted position and one of a plurality of extended positions. The lower frame connects to the truck bed. The upper frame provides a supporting platform that supports objects. In the retracted position, the upper and lower frames are in a vertical, stacked arrangement so that both frames can be circumscribed by...