US Patent Issued on June 3 for "Wheelchair lift and methods of making and using the same" (Oregon, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,336, issued on June 3.

"Wheelchair lift and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Zakary Valentine (Wood Village, Ore.), Ethan Van Meter (Owasso, Okla.) and Dillon Dakota Carroll (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removably mounted wheelchair lift device that can elevate the wheelchair and its user. The lift device has a novel lifting mechanism which has an upper plate, a lower plate, a knee plate, an upper interior link, an upper exterior link, a lower interior link, a lower exterior link and a transfer link. The various parts of the lifting mechanism are pivotally attached to one another in a manner which...