ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,035, issued on July 1.
"Tire and wheel assembly lifting device" was invented by Kevin A. Robinson (Brighton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for lifting a wheel and rolling the wheel on a surface includes an elongated rigid plate having a top side, a bottom side, a peripheral edge, a pedal portion at a rear end of the rigid plate, and a wheel portion at a forward end of the rigid plate. A ground roller is fixed with the bottom side of the rigid plate and at least two wheel rollers are fixed with a top side of the wheel portion. In use, with the wheel resting on the wheel rollers, the pedal portion may be pressed downward...