US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on Dec. 23 for "Recoil housing, engine assembly, and method of assembling engine assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,200, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Recoil housing, engine assembly, and method of assembling engine assembly" was invented by Benjamin Taylor Langaas (Thief River Falls, Minn.) and Derek Sorenson (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a recoil housing for an engine in a vehicle. The recoil housing includes a housing portion having one or more engine fastening features, an arm integrated with the housing portion, and a mounting portion integrated with the arm. The mounting portion includes one or more mounting portion features."

The patent was fil...