US Patent Issued to Thor Tech on Sept. 8 for "Skirt locks for recreational vehicles" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,713, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Thor Tech Inc. (Elkhart, Ind.).

"Skirt locks for recreational vehicles" was invented by Trent Tobolski (Granger, Ind.), Vishnu Ramkumar (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Merle Yoder (Elkhart, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recreational vehicle (RV) may include a chassis and an RV body supported by the chassis. The RV body may include an exterior wall. The RV may further include an RV skirt including an upper portion and a lower portion and a skirt lock. The skirt lock may include a skirt lock body including a rear side and a front side. The skirt lock may further include a resilient securement slot...