US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on July 21 for "Notched slide rails for snowmobile drive track systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,451, issued on July 21, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Notched slide rails for snowmobile drive track systems" was invented by Steven Janzow (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and David L. Vigen (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive track system for a snowmobile includes a slide rail having a forward section and an aft section. The aft section of the slide rail has a monolithic construction and defines an aftmost wheel station, a second-to-aftmost wheel station forward of the aftmost wheel station and a clearance notch that is at least partially disposed between the aftmost wheel stati...