US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, JD Components on Aug. 25 for "Rear wheel and seat linkage mechanism" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,536, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and JD Components Co. Ltd. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Rear wheel and seat linkage mechanism" was invented by Matthew B. Staal (Torrance, Calif.), Michael Jin Kim (Long Beach, Calif.), Jackie P. Porchay (Torrance, Calif.), Ming Hsein Lee (Taichung, Taiwan), Ding Jong Chou (Taichung, Taiwan) and Sheng Yu Yu Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear wheel and seat linkage mechanism for a personal transport device and a corresponding personal transport device are provided. The mechanism includes a carrier, configured to slide along a track of a slidin...