US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on Aug. 11 for "Rear suspension system for a snowmobile" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,460, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Rear suspension system for a snowmobile" was invented by Benjamin Taylor Langaas (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Brian W. Dick (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snowmobile includes a chassis, at least one ski steerably secured to a front of the chassis, and a skid frame having a rear suspension and one or more slide rails. The rear suspension includes a flexible, composite member affixed on a first end to the one or more slide rails and on a second end to the chassis, wherein the flexible, composite member includes a main body...