US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Six-wheeled vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,579, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Six-wheeled vehicle" was invented by Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To realize a six-wheeled vehicle that can move omni-directionally. A six-wheeled vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a main body; middle wheels arranged on the left and right sides of the main body; front wheels arranged in front of the middle wheels; rear wheels arranged behind the middle wheels; and a drive mechanism configured to cause each of the middle wheels to turn about a steering axle extending in a vertical dir...