ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,783, issued on Sept. 9.
"Vehicle tailgate assembly" was invented by Wentworth Ebanks (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle tailgate assembly includes a tailgate that is pivotally disposed on a bed of a pickup a panel space is integrated into the tailgate. A panel is hingedly disposed in the panel space in the tailgate. The panel is positionable in a closed or an open position. A step is slidably integrated into the panel and the step is positionable in a deployed position to facilitate a user to step on the step for climbing into the bed. A camera is integrated into the tailgate to record images of an area behind ...