US Patent Issued to Britax Child Safety on Jan. 13 for "Parking brake assemblies for child strollers" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,273, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Britax Child Safety Inc. (Fort Mill, S.C.).

"Parking brake assemblies for child strollers" was invented by Angela Stacey (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Huang Kai Yu (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking brake assembly includes a disc defining an aperture and a ramp located adjacent to the aperture; a pedal configured to rotate the disc in a locking direction or an unlocking direction; and an actuator including a body and a spring biased to push the body towards the aperture, the actuator further including a pin positioned and arranged to ride along the ramp when the disc is rotated r...