ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,788, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KING RACK INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Bike rack" was invented by Chiu-Kuei Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Hugues Espesset (St-Juery, France) and Girod Frederic (St-Juery, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bike rack for connecting to a connecting device of a vehicle to provide transportation functionality is provided. The bike rack includes a base; a carrying frame including at least one pair of carrying frame brackets that is configured to carry a front wheel and a rear wheel of a bike, each carrying frame bracket connected to the base, and a coupling portion arranged at one end o...