US Patent Issued to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on June 24 for "Roof rail system for being arranged on the roof of a vehicle and a method for mounting the roof rail system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,800, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Roof rail system for being arranged on the roof of a vehicle and a method for mounting the roof rail system" was invented by Oscar Tullberg (Hovas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof rail system for a vehicle includes first and second roof rails each having front and back attachment structures and a rail bar. The first rail bar is attached to its front attachment structure via a first hinge and its back attachment structure via a first lock. The second rail ba...