ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,585, issued on March 11, was assigned to EXTANG Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
"Bias regulated rolling truck bed cover" was invented by Chad Carter (Manchester, Mich.), Ryan DeLong (Stockbridge, Mich.), Jerome Facchinello (Grand Blanc, Mich.), William Cohoon (Whitmore Lake, Mich.), Robert Gaarder (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Wilbur Paul Winkle III (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tonneau system that includes a retraction system having a track; and a tonneau cover having a plurality of tonneau sections, including: one or more latch bar connectors, each including a male latch connector and a female latch connector; a tonn...