ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,961, issued on June 23, was assigned to MACNEIL IP LLC (Bolingbrook, Ill.).
"Side window deflector" was invented by Frederick W. Masanek Jr. (Barrington, Ill.), Ryan Falkman (Bartlett, Ill.) and Larry Melcher (Allendale, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side window deflector has a body, and a flange joined to the body for fitting into a channel of a vehicle door window. At least one camming facet is formed on an inner surface of a deflector body end portion, adjacent a junction of an end portion lower edge and a flange lower edge. An advancing top edge of a window glass will encounter this camming facet before it encounters any...