US Patent Issued to Thule Sweden on July 22 for "Tightening member, clamp member and clamp assembly" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,290, issued on July 22, was assigned to Thule Sweden AB (Hillerstorp, Sweden).

"Tightening member, clamp member and clamp assembly" was invented by Anders Nilvius (Varnamo, Sweden), Johan Rinman (Varnamo, Sweden) and Mathias Giselson (Varnamo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a tightening member for tightening a clamping device for fixing an accessory to a crossbar of a load carrier. The tightening member includes a coupling portion for detachably coupling the tightening member to a coupling section of the clamping device. The coupling portion is engageable with the coupling section in a torque transferable manner. ...