ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,695, issued on Sept. 23.
"Stake pocket utility system" was invented by Ryan Robert Wach (Valencia, Calif.) and William Littell Everitt III (Valencia, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stake pocket utility system includes a first assembly detachably connected to a stake pocket, such as stake pockets formed in a wall of a bed of a pickup truck or the like. A second assembly is associated with an accessory and slidably mounted to the first assembly. The first and second assemblies are detachably connected to one another as spring-biased tabs are moved from retracted unlocked positions and into extended locked positions as the tab...