ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,642, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Electric walking assisting vehicle" was invented by Gopinath Raja (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric walking assisting vehicle includes a vehicle body; left and right driving wheels; left and right motors operable to individually transmit power to the left and right driving wheels; gripping parts provided in an upper portion of the vehicle body and can be gripped by a user in a standing and walking posture; an electromagnetic brake for locking the left and right driving wheels or the left and right motors; a forcible release for...