US Patent Issued to ROLL-N-LOCK on Oct. 7 for "Retractable truck bed cover having slat array with flexible joiner members and shielded seams" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,544, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ROLL-N-LOCK Corp. (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

"Retractable truck bed cover having slat array with flexible joiner members and shielded seams" was invented by Richard Gregory Bernardo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Brandon Gregory Bernardo (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractable truck bed cover having an array of parallel aluminum slats joined together by connective hinges including leading and trailing edge configuration for improving the security of the cover by covering and concealing the seam between adjacent slats while improving the connective hinge's resistance to the effect...