ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,336, issued on June 23, was assigned to G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI (Bologna, Italy).

"Transport system for an article" was invented by Luca Testoni (Castelmaggiore, Italy), Paolo Degliesposti (Bologna, Italy) and Luca Lanzarini (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transport system (6) for an article (1) having: a movable unit (7) provided with at least one seat (8), which is designed to contain the article (1), is delimited by a first wall (11) and by a second wall (12) facing one another and opposite one another, so that the article (1) can be housed between the first wall (11) and the second wall (12), and has an elastic ele...