ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,084, issued on July 1, was assigned to Aurora Ontario (Canada).
"Hard top roof removal assist" was invented by Marc Cogswell (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Larry R. Erickson (Birmingham, Mich.), Robert M. Horner (Ferndale, Mich.), Brian Staley (Bloomfield, Mich.) and Luyao Zhu (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard top removal assist system for a vehicle. The system includes a vehicle body having a plurality of rails mounted to the vehicle body. A hard top has a connection that is used to connect the hard top to the plurality of rails. There is at least one connection on the hard top that is slidable in the one or more rails b...