US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on May 19 for "Taillight housing, snow flap and assembly thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,259, issued on May 19, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Taillight housing, snow flap and assembly thereof" was invented by David Larry Vigen (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Steven Theodore Janzow (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taillight housing and a snow flap are provided for a snowmobile, wherein the taillight housing is mountable to a bumper/hand bar and a drive track tunnel of a snowmobile such that the taillight housing assembly provides structural reinforcement to the drive track tunnel, and the snow flap is mountable to the bumper/hand bar and optionally mountable to the ta...