US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Electric personal mobility device with fold mechanism" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,462, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electric personal mobility device with fold mechanism" was invented by Youngseok Roh (Incheon, South Korea), Choonghee Rhew (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Jaewook Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal mobility device includes a deck, wheels positioned at opposing ends of the deck, a pole extending at a proximal end from a first wheel of the wheels, and a handle located at a distal end of the pole. The deck includes a deck hinge located between a first deck end and a second deck end, and a deck latch operably connected to t...