US Patent Issued on Oct. 6 for "Apparatus for switching two rollers of a skate between an in-line position and a side-by-side position" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,177, issued on Oct. 6.

"Apparatus for switching two rollers of a skate between an in-line position and a side-by-side position" was invented by Jong-Yuan Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller skate includes a sole, a beam, a fastening unit, supporting elements and connecting units. The sole includes bores around an aperture. The beam includes an orifice between two recesses and stepped holes in communication with the recesses. The fastening unit includes a nut engaged with a threaded bolt inserted in the orifice and the aperture. Each of the supporting elements includes an arched portion for supporting a roller...