US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on Aug. 4 for "Running board rear kick-up" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,054, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Running board rear kick-up" was invented by David Vigen (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Benjamin Taylor Langaas (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear member of a running board assembly for a snow vehicle. The rear member includes a transition body positionable adjacent a side wall of a tunnel of the snow vehicle. The transition body comprises a forward end and a rearward end extending upward and rearward therefrom. The rear member further includes a flange extending downward and rearward from the transition body. The flange is ...