US Patent Issued to Club Car on March 11 for "Personal transportation vehicle with pivoting seat and cargo bay" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,630, issued on March 11, was assigned to Club Car LLC (Evans, Ga.).

"Personal transportation vehicle with pivoting seat and cargo bay" was invented by Gregory Harris McGraw (Evans, Ga.), William David Reeves Jr. (Grovetown, Ga.) and Joseph Mark Butler (Evans, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a utility vehicle having a pivotable seat connected by a hinge to a fixed platform. The pivotable seat configured to pivot between a first position and a second position defining a standard seat location and a first wall of a cargo bay, respectively. A seatback is configured to form a second wall of a carg...