ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,139, issued on May 6.
"Motorized walking shoes" was invented by Raja Singh Tuli (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized personal transportation article is described which transports a person by wearing a pair of power-assisted motorized shoes, wherein the shoes provide an increase in a user's walking speed in a forward walking action through supplementary motion of moving or propelling means based on an intended walking speed of the user, such that when a user's intended walking speed changes or when a user intends to substantially decelerate or immobilize, the speed of the supplementary motion can be adjusted before the...