US Patent Issued to ALBER on May 26 for "Auxiliary drive device for a wheelchair" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,207, issued on May 26, was assigned to ALBER GMBH (Albstadt, Germany).

"Auxiliary drive device for a wheelchair" was invented by Joachim Menig (Bisingen, Germany) and Miroslaw Rodewald (Bisingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary drive device for a wheelchair has at least one freely pivotable electrically driven drive wheel and a coupling mechanism for coupling the auxiliary drive device to the wheelchair. The coupling mechanism includes a movable locking element which is movably supported in the coupling mechanism. The movable locking element can be in a locking position in which it causes locking in a positive-lock...