US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Oct. 21 for "Wheeled luggage item with integrated personal mobility capability" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,670, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Wheeled luggage item with integrated personal mobility capability" was invented by Corey Zwegers (Dexter, Mich.), Adam R. VanAntwerp (Chelsea, Mich.), Brian Schneidewind (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Bradley Steven Baskin (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheeled luggage item includes a base defining an interior cavity, and a liner structured to partition the interior cavity into a first portion and a second portion physically isolated from the first portion. Personal lugg...