ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,744, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Future Motion Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Tiltable chassis for a three-wheeled vehicle" was invented by Joseph Wilcox (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kyle Jonathan Doerksen (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-wheeled vehicle may include one rear wheel and two front wheels coupled to a tiltable chassis, such that tilting of the chassis causes a corresponding tilting of the three wheels. The tiltable chassis includes a tiltable body coupled to a non-tilting frame by a pair of rotatable joints, such that the tiltable body is configured to rotate relative to the frame. A fore-and-aft...