ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,868, issued on April 7, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bunk for a vehicle cab" was invented by Linus Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Zoran Vasiloski (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bunk comprises a frame attached to the cab, having a front beam, a rear beam, and side beams, each side beam comprising a front segment and a rear segment; and a supporting structure coupled to the frame and extending over the inner surface of the frame. The bunk can change from a normal state, in which the front and rear beams are spaced apart by a nominal distance Dn, the front and rear segments being in ...