US Patent Issued on June 2 for "Wheelchair for four-legged animal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,733, issued on June 2.

"Wheelchair for four-legged animal" was invented by Hiroaki Koreeda (Shimabara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel chair 1A to be used for a four-legged animal that comprises: a healthy limb side holder 2 attached to the healthy limb side body; a impaired limb side holder 3 that is attached to the impaired limb side body and rotatably supports wheels 53; and a pair of connecting members 4 connecting the healthy limb side holder 2 and the impaired limb side holder 3 at the left and right positions of the four-legged animal respectively, wherein the pair of connecting members 4 are configured to be exten...