ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,873, issued on July 29, was assigned to Leer Group (Elkhart, Ind.).
"Truck cap" was invented by Jeffrey Joal Hickey (Sturgis, Mich.), Donald Richard Ireland (Middlebury, Ind.), Terrill D. Becker (Bristol, Ind.), Mitchell Austin Westra (Granger, Ind.) and James Dillard Fletcher (Elkhart, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A truck cap having a cap body with an opening, and a cap door that is movable between open and closed positions with respect to the opening. At least one hinge that attaches to the cap body and the cap door of the truck cap. The hinge includes a first hinge bracket member and a second hinge bracket member. The first...