US Patent Issued to Moochout on July 1 for "Passenger vehicle wheel cover" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,037, issued on July 1, was assigned to Moochout LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Passenger vehicle wheel cover" was invented by Jonathan E. Fleck (St. Paul, Minn.) and John Thomas Calhoun (Shafer, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed and claimed herein provide a wheel cover system. In one implementation, an inward force exerted against a wheel cover of the wheel cover assembly in an inward direction towards the hub is received. The inward force overcomes a spring bias of a spring of the receiver and translates the wheel cover assembly in the inward direction. A first rotational force rotating the wheel cover assembly ...