US Patent Issued to Herkules Equipment on Dec. 16 for "Lift assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,272, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Herkules Equipment Corp. (Walled Lake, Mich.).

"Lift assembly" was invented by Todd John Bacon (Northville, Mich.), Eliana Virginia Podolski Bacon (Northville, Mich.), Scott Francis Wilhelm (Brighton, Mich.) and Leigh Nelson Gaither (Taylor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift assembly includes a base, a platform coupled to the base and moveable between a lowered state and an elevated state, a first pair of scissor arms including a first arm and a second arm pivotably connected to one another, and a second pair of scissor arms including a third arm and a fourth arm pivotably connected t...