ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,127, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Razor USA LLC (Cerritos, Calif.).
"Convertible caster board" was invented by Robert Chen (Cerritos, Calif.), Ian Desberg (Cerritos, Calif.), Kyle McDonald (Cerritos, Calif.) and Jerry Tao (Cerritos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A caster board can include a front platform section connected by a torsion bar or other neck portion to a rear platform section. The caster board can be convertible between a first configuration in which the caster board has three wheels, and a second configuration in which the caster board has two wheels. In the first configuration, the rear platform section can ...