ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,989, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).
"Headlight assembly" was invented by Erick Halvorson (Albany, Minn.) and Lucas Purcell (Grand Forks, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a snowmobile has a body with a headlight assembly that includes a headlight and a cowl. The headlight includes a lens with a center section, and two side sections, wherein one side section includes an extended portion. The cowl is attached to the headlight and covers a portion of the lens. The cowl includes a middle section and two wings extending from the middle section, where the wing, positioned...