US Patent Issued to POLARIS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 4 for "Reel assembly and methods of use thereof" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,181, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC. (Medina, Minn.).

"Reel assembly and methods of use thereof" was invented by Benoit Renaud (Elkhart, Ind.), Erik Rogers (Bristol, Ind.) and Kristian E. Nelson (Elkhart, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel system may receive a leading edge of a flexible buoyant pad. The flexible buoyant pad may have a use configuration having a first outer vertical envelope and a storage configuration having a second outer vertical envelope that is smaller than the first outer vertical envelope. The reel system may comprise at least one base member, an arm rotatably coupled to the bas...