US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on May 26 for "Vehicle cargo storage apparatus" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,148, issued on May 26, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle cargo storage apparatus" was invented by Micheal Richard Castiglione (Carlsbad, Calif.), Philipp Josef Wolf (Dana Point, Calif.), Neil Joseph Kwiatkowski (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Jonathan David Salerno (Newport, Calif.), Simon Baker (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Shammika Ashan Wickramasinghe (Banbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a panel. The panel can couple with a tailgate of a vehicle. The panel can be configured to move from a first position relative to the tailgate to a second position to form a storag...