US Patent Issued to Thule Sweden on July 7 for "Load carrier apparatuses and systems" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,619, issued on July 7, was assigned to Thule Sweden AB (Hillerstorp, Sweden).

"Load carrier apparatuses and systems" was invented by Arvid Gransmark (Jonkoping, Sweden), Praveen Saladi (Jonkoping, Sweden), Fredrik Ekvall (Jonkoping, Sweden), Sachin Rawool (Hillerstorp, Sweden) and Olof Claesson (Skillingaryd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle carrier includes a base, a bicycle tray, a wheel holder, and a wheel securement arm. The bicycle tray can couple to the base and be configured to support a bicycle. The wheel holder can couple to the bicycle tray and be configured to translate relative to the bicycle tray. The wheel...