US Patent Issued to Kuat Innovations on Dec. 30 for "Bicycle rack with actuated arm" (Missouri, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,172, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kuat Innovations LLC (Springfield, Mo.).

"Bicycle rack with actuated arm" was invented by Luke Kuschmeader (Springfield, Mo.), Aaron Houston (Springfield, Mo.), Austin Harrill (Springfield, Mo.), Jordan Bowles (Lexington, S.C.) and Jonathan Graif (Springfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle rack is described with an actuated arm that pivots to an open position in response to user activation of the actuator. The actuator is attached to the rack and the arm and exerts a force on the arm by extension to pivot the actuated arm to the open position. The actuator extends only when a rel...