US Patent Issued to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Wheelchair with emergency brake system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,548, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wheelchair with emergency brake system" was invented by Muhammad Asad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Azhar Ali Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mushtaq Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdul Aziz Afzal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Alanood Almoaikel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bayan Aljishi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Lujain Alshuhail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Zainab Alsaigh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheelchair having an emergency brake system in which a wheel of the wheelchair has a hub, a rim, spokes extending betwe...