ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,930, issued on June 24.
"Arm powered cycle" was invented by Richard Francks (Ephraim, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arm powered cycle has an arm drive with a hand bar. Oscillating fore and aft movement of the hand bar is converted to rotational movement to drive a driven wheel by a dual, reverse motion slip clutch. The hand bar can have a U-shaped yoke with a seat positioned between uprights of the yoke. The yoke can be combined with an integrated steering mechanism to both drive the driven wheel and turn a directional wheel. A combiner can combine motion from the arm drive and a leg drive."
The patent was filed on March 8,...