ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,481, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle" was invented by Kazumasa Ozaki (Saitama, Japan) and Tomokazu Sakamoto (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle 1 includes a vehicle body frame 2, a drive unit 3 provided in the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor, a seat 4 arranged above the vehicle body frame and supporting the buttocks of a user, a lifting device 5 provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat and lifting or lowering the seat between a low position and a high position, a battery 7 provided in the vehicle body frame, and a control device 6 controlling the dri...