ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,572, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Hidden winch assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Varun Chakravarthy (Irvine, Calif.) and Alexandra Anderson (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hidden winch assembly for a vehicle, including: a winch assembly including a mounting structure defining a plurality of mounting points disposed on one side of the winch assembly; and a bumper structure including a mounting plate disposed on a back side of the bumper structure, wherein the mounting plate is disposed at an angle between a vertical plane of the vehicle and a horizontal plane of...