US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on May 26 for "Off-road vehicles having a forwardly tiltable cargo bed" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,149, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Off-road vehicles having a forwardly tiltable cargo bed" was invented by Lucas Grant Purcell (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Thomas Robert Brausen (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road vehicle includes a frame assembly, a powertrain, a plurality of wheels and a seat assembly. A cargo box is coupled to the frame assembly aft of the seat assembly. The cargo box includes a floor and a plurality of side walls. A cargo bed is pivotally coupled relative to the cargo box about a forward hinge. The cargo bed includes a floor and a...