ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,443, issued on Sept. 8.

"Multi directional drive mode for an electric vehicle" was invented by Aed M. Dudar (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a sitting area, a transceiver and a processor is disclosed. The sitting area may be configured to swivel about a sitting area axis. The transceiver may be configured to receive a user request to move the vehicle in a first direction. The processor may be configured to obtain the user request and determine a sitting area orientation based on the first direction responsive to obtaining the user request. The processor may further cause the sitting area to swivel to ...