ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,856, issued on April 22, was assigned to Geremarie Corp. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
"Wakeboard tower assembly" was invented by Jim Schultz (South Barrington, Ill.), Greg Mackall (Volo, Ill.) and Doug Erdman (McHenry, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wakeboard tower assembly includes a base assembly operably supporting a towing assembly between a lowered storage position and a raised in-use position, and a cylinder assembly configured to bias the towing assembly from the lowered storage position toward the raised in-use position, a closed loop fluid circuit that includes a fluid-receiving first chamber including first and second portion...