US Patent Issued to N.B. ADVENTURES on Sept. 23 for "Quick release and locking systems for removable cross-bars for vehicles and the like" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,718, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to N.B. ADVENTURES LLC (Wyomissing, Pa.).

"Quick release and locking systems for removable cross-bars for vehicles 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 system for supporting a removable crossbar for mounting accessories on vehicles, includes: a support member having a lower section configured to attach to a vehicle and an upper section for support of accessories, and a removable crossbar including a quick release threadedly attached to an end t...