US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on April 15 for "Wheelchair restraint apparatus" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,651, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Wheelchair restraint apparatus" was invented by Tokuyuki Nishikawa (Aichi, Japan), Keisuke Toda (Aichi, Japan), Katsuhito Yamauchi (Aichi, Japan), Jacob Richter (Livonia, Mich.), Chandra Jinka (South Lyon, Mich.), Doug Krueger (Macomb Township, Mich.), Tracy Joseph (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Enoch Morishima (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelc...