US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 22 for "Wheelchair" (Japanese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,998, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Wheelchair" was invented by Takashi Iwase (Hiroshima, Japan), Isao Toda (Hiroshima, Japan), Chih-Hung Chen (Beidou Town, Changhua County, Taiwan) and Yu-chao Wei (BeidouTown, Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it easier to lift and move a wheelchair by keeping casters from hanging even when the wheelchair is lifted by one hand, a wheelchair includes a folding mechanism that couples a left-side support arm and a right-side support arm foldably in a left-right direction of the vehicle body. The folding mechanism includes an operat...