US Patent Issued to N.B. Adventures on May 6 for "Modular mounting system with removable cross-bars and side panels for truck beds and the like" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,171, issued on May 6, was assigned to N.B. Adventures LLC (Wyomissing, Pa.).

"Modular mounting system with removable cross-bars and side panels for truck beds and the like" was invented by William H. Kiefer IV (Elizabethtown, Pa.) and Nathan T. Sutherland (Wyomissing, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some illustrative embodiments, a modular mounting system for mounting accessories on vehicles includes: a) a plurality of support members, each of said plurality of support members having i) a lower upright planar member configured to extend downward along a peripheral wall around a vehicle bed, ii) a cross planar member e...