ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,248, issued on March 25, was assigned to Car-O-Liner Group AB (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

"Scissor arm, scissor lift, and method of fabricating a scissor arm" was invented by Cecil Dahlberg (Vasteras, Sweden), Erik Vestholm (Kungsor, Sweden), Tony Andersson (Kungsor, Sweden) and Tobias Backman (Koping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scissor arm for an articulating support is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. The scissor arm includes a central support structure at least a portion of which extends in a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The scissor arm also includes a tubular body including firs...