US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,708, issued on Sept. 8.

"Vehicle" was invented by Thomas Yates (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle with a body having a cockpit therein, wherein: the cockpit contains one or more seats disposed in a single file arrangement; the body has first and second doors for accessing the cockpit, the first and second doors being arranged on opposite sides of the cockpit; when the first door is closed, an upper portion of the first door is arranged to form a first part of a roof of the cockpit; and the first part of the roof of the cockpit is larger than any part of the roof of the cockpit form...