US Patent Issued to Agri-Cover on July 14 for "Tonneau cover having secured flexible hinge" (North Dakota, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,188, issued on July 14, was assigned to Agri-Cover Inc. (Jamestown, N.D.).

"Tonneau cover having secured flexible hinge" was invented by Charles M. Schmeichel (Jamestown, N.D.), Brendan T. Bohn (Jamestown, N.D.), Mark E. Beam (Jamestown, N.D.) and John W. Simon (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tonneau cover apparatus for removable attachment to a cargo box of a pickup truck including a support frame assembly and a cover assembly. The cover assembly includes a plurality of pivotally interconnected rigid panels that can be folded up and secured to the cargo box such that respective upper surfaces of at least two of t...