US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 23 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,184, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Wataru Yada (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Nohara (Saitama, Japan) and Takeshi Echizenya (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a drive unit provided on the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor surface; a seat disposed above the vehicle body frame to support buttocks of a user; a lift unit provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat to raise and lower the seat between a low position and a high position; at least one first leg extending downward from the seat and provided with a rol...