US Patent Issued to Malibu Boats on June 2 for "Sport board rack for power boat" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,640, issued on June 2, was assigned to Malibu Boats LLC (Loudon, Tenn.).

"Sport board rack for power boat" was invented by Lyle Andrew Ramsdell (Lenoir City, Tenn.), Patrick Bryan Dawley (Loudon, Tenn.), Matthew Bradford Slayden (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jeffrey Lee Predmore (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sport board rack for improving the stowage of one or more boards on a power boat or other watercraft. The sport board rack can include one or more telescoping arms that can pivot independently relative to each other. Each of the telescoping arms can include a claw that can be extended and retracted to secure a board ...