US Patent Issued to MAGNA CLOSURES on Sept. 30 for "Power-operated retractable closure panel for truck bed" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,895, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MAGNA CLOSURES INC. (Newmarket, Canada).

"Power-operated retractable closure panel for truck bed" was invented by Tobias Kober (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Mariusz Gierak (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Marcus Papendorf (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Gernot Bruder (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Jens Anders (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Metodi Kostadinov (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Frank Bertz (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure system for a motor vehicle cargo bed includes a closure panel having a plurality of slats moveable between a de...