ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,407, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Moving apparatus" was invented by Shingo Tsukada (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for movement (10) includes a main frame (20) and a front frame (40) detachably attached to the main frame (20). The main frame (20) includes a seat face (23) which has a hole opened in a vertical direction (Z) and on which a user (U) sits, and includes a truck (21) arranged below the seat face (23) and opened backward. The front frame (40) includes a front leaning part (41) which is disposed above and forward of the main frame (20) and against which a user (U) sittin...