US Patent Issued to The Braun on Sept. 2 for "Ramp siderail deployment apparatus and method" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,052, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Braun Corp. (Winamac, Ind.).

"Ramp siderail deployment apparatus and method" was invented by Vinay Kumar Kotagi (Troy, Mich.), Sasikumar Narayanan (Bangalore, India), Jacob Rasmussen (Troy, Mich.) and Laxman Podili (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ramp assembly to accommodate a wheel-chaired passenger to enter or to exit a passenger vehicle. The ramp assembly includes a frame having a drive assembly and a ramp subassembly slidably coupled to the frame. The ramp subassembly includes a ramp and a side rail extending along a side of the ramp. A ramp linkage is pivotally coupl...