ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,691, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).
"Off-road utility vehicle" was invented by Devin Joseph Danielson (Saint Cloud, Minn.), Adam Christian Krone (Becker, Minn.), Nathan Len Wiater (Richmond, Minn.), Aaron Lee Swanson (Kandiyohi, Minn.), Erick John Halvorson (Albany, Minn.), Douglas Robert Grangroth (Big Lake, Minn.), Kevin James Miller (Big Lake, Minn.), Jared Richard Spindler (Albany, Minn.), Leigh Raymond Collyer (Sauk Rapids, Minn.), Donald Scott Hansen (Big Lake, Minn.), Joseph Patrick Wood (Becker, Minn.) and Todd MacDonald (Balderson, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-...