US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 4 for "Seat post and handlebar latching mechanism for personal transport device" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,597, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Seat post and handlebar latching mechanism for personal transport device" was invented by Nicholas P. Ziraldo (Powell, Ohio), Matthew B. Staal (Torrance, Calif.), Michael Jin Kim (Long Beach, Calif.), Jackie P. Porchay (Torrance, Calif.), Ming Hsein Lee (Taichung, Taiwan), Ding Jong Chou (Taichung, Taiwan) and Sheng Yu Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact personal transport device convertible between a riding configuration and a stowed configuration is described. In one embodiment, a latching mechanism for the compact personal transport d...