ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,048, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to UEA ENTERPRISES Ltd. (Norwich, Great Britain).
"Apparatus to aid walking" was invented by Nicola Joanne Hancock (Norwich, Great Britain), Valerie Moyra Pomeroy (Norwich, Great Britain) and David Geoffrey Robinson (Berkhamstead, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to aid walking, the apparatus including a base unit, housing a motor; and further including first and second horizontally orientated foot supports, mounted for back and forth parallel motion relative to the base unit; the foot supports each being operably connected to the motor; each foot support including a plura...