US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on April 22 for "Wheelchair restraint mechanism" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,997, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Wheelchair restraint mechanism" 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 mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for res...