ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,868, issued on Sept. 30.
"Hard rooftop tent" was invented by Yoo Kyeong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kang Wook Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hard rooftop tent mounted and used on the roof of a vehicle or trailer. To this end, according to the present invention, automatic erection is performed by erection means installed directly on first and second partition walls constituting front and rear upright skeleton walls among the front and rear upright skeleton walls and both side walls formed as one unit between a lower case and an upper case to form and eliminate an inne...