ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,360, issued on June 3, was assigned to Magna Exteriors Inc. (Aurora, Canada).
"Modular tailgate" was invented by Chris Williamson (Macomb, Mich.), Robert M. Horner (Ferndale, Mich.), Marc Cogswell (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Larry R. Erickson (Birmingham, Mich.) and Brian Staley (Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular gate combined with multiple functions which can be easily employed with existing tailgates without any hardware or mounting modifications to existing truck beds. There is provided a modular tailgate system having a tailgate portion in combination with a plurality of functions. The modular tailgate syst...