ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,979, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JYIN SHENG Co. LTD. (Changhua County, Taiwan).
"Vehicular roof rack" was invented by Yu-Lung Tsai (Changhua County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular roof rack includes: a holder having two lateral portions opposing each other; two U-shaped frames each having a transverse rod and two arm rods connected to two ends of the transverse rod, respectively; and two retractable rods each having two ends pivotally connected to the arm rods of the U-shaped frames, respectively. An angle positioning device is disposed between one of the arm rods of each U-shaped frame and one of the latera...