US Patent Issued to Thule Sweden on Aug. 5 for "Roof rack foot assembly for a roof rack and a roof rack for a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,788, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Thule Sweden AB (Hillerstorp, Sweden).

"Roof rack foot assembly for a roof rack and a roof rack for a vehicle" was invented by Fredrik Larsson (Vaggeryd Jonkoping, Sweden), Stefan Andersson (Varnamo Jonkoping, Sweden), Peter Wikstrom (Skillingaryd, Sweden), Jens Pettersson (Jonkoping, Sweden), Joachim Vidar (Vaggeryd, Sweden), Mujo Kukolj (Varnamo, Sweden) and Henric Svensson (Anderstorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a roof rack foot assembly for a roof rack including a carrier member for carrying a crossbar of the roof rack, and a bracket. The bracket i...