ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,300, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOVE-X Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Safe foothold apparatus for platform" was invented by Seo Jun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sung Jun Yun (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a safe foothold apparatus for a platform, wherein a foothold plate protrudes from and is retracted into the platform by moving along a curved rotational route so that the foothold plate is re-retracted into the platform safely due to the operation structure even when a collision occurs between a train and the foothold plate in a protrusion state. Therefor...