US Patent Issued to QUALITY CARRIERS on Dec. 16 for "Placard mounting structure" (South African, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,786, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALITY CARRIERS INC. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Placard mounting structure" was invented by Timothy Neil McLaren (Port Elizabeth, South Africa), Stephan Strydom (Uitenhage, South Africa), Cedric Vermaak (Uitenhage, South Africa), Glen Harm (Jasper, Ga.) and Steven Craig (Jasper, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for holding a placard includes a backplate that is engaged with a rail structure and a retention panel that is engaged with the backplate and configured to receive a placard, the retention panel and the backplate being movable between a first position adjacent an end of the rail structu...