ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,167, issued on April 29.
"Low-floor bus support structure" was invented by David Thomas Delforte (Canandaigua, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support structure for a low-floor bus having front wheels and rear wheels, the support structure including a floor support structure having a front end and a read end, wherein the floor support structure configured to receive front side rails on the front end of the floor support structure and rear side rails on the rear end of the floor support structure, a cutout disposed on a lateral edge of the floor support structure, a plurality of support bearings each attached to a bottom surface ...