ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,738, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STEP2GOLD Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Folding crutch chair with a folding auxiliary positioning mechanism" was invented by Chih-Ting Pao (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folding crutch chair includes a pivot base unit, a primary leg unit, at least two support leg units, a positioning unit and a seating unit. The leg units are mounted on the pivot base unit. The positioning unit is mounted on the primary leg unit, and has a mounting seat and a positioning member. The positioning member has a guiding slope surface. A seating member of the seating unit is shiftable between a c...