US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Tonneau system with flexible cover" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,946, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Tonneau system with flexible cover" was invented by James John Alexander Dowle (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Philipp Josef Wolf (Dana Point, Calif.), Greg Witten (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Andrew Frierott (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments may provide a tonneau system for a vehicle. The tonneau system may be movable between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. The tonneau system may include a cover, a beam, and rails. The cover may have two side edges and a tail edge, the beam may be coupled to ...