ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,545, issued on April 8, was assigned to Rudy Rack Inc. (Stevens Point, Wis.).
"Self-adjusting bike rack" was invented by Don Rasmussen (Stevens Point, Wis.) and Mark William Messing (Rosholt, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display rack for bicycles provides opposed wheel cups for engaging the periphery of a bicycle wheel where one wheel cup is mounted to a pivoting lever that is pressed downward on one end by the weight of the bicycle tire to move the wheel cups together providing a gravity actuated clamping that is released when the bicycle is lifted. One or more wheel cups may extend in a channel measured in a tangent to the...