US Patent Issued to Summit Applied Technologies on March 3 for "Hinge assemblies for reconfigurable watercraft" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,293, issued on March 3, was assigned to Summit Applied Technologies Inc. (Arlington, Wash.).

"Hinge assemblies for reconfigurable watercraft" was invented by Stefan Schacht (Bellingham, Wash.) and Timothy A. Niemier (Bellingham, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge assembly for a reconfigurable watercraft having a latch support member, a striker member, a pivot member, and a latch member. The pivot member is arranged such that the striker member may rotate about a pivot axis relative to the latch support member. The latch member is supported by the latch support member for movement along a latch axis between a retracted posit...