US Patent Issued to Extang on Sept. 23 for "Modular truck cap apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,874, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Extang Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Modular truck cap apparatus" was invented by Jerome Facchinello (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Robert Mosingo (Saline, Mich.), Chad Carter (Manchester, Mich.), Anthony Becker (Saline, Mich.), Robert Wisely (Saline, Mich.) and Daniel Delaney (Pinckney, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility rack for covering at least a portion of a cargo area of a vehicle, the utility rack includes a frame having: one or more lower support bars that are configured to extend at least partially along a length of the cargo area; one or more upper support bars that are configured t...