US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on Dec. 30 for "Spindle for a recreational vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,860, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Spindle for a recreational vehicle" was invented by Jacob Tyler Crosby (Oklee, Minn.) and Nathan Lee Blomker (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a recreational vehicle spindle for use with a snowmobile, a snow bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATV), or a side by side vehicle (SxS or UTV). The spindle includes a body with one or more mounts for securing a suspension component and a ground engaging member thereto. The body of the spindle may include one or more of a window, a recess, a leadin...