ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,947, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Truck" was invented by Taiki Iimura (Saitama, Japan), Kazumasa Ozaki (Saitama, Japan) and Hiroshi Iwakami (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A truck includes a body, left and right wheels provided on the body, left and right drive units driving the wheels, a handle provided on the body, a sensor, and a control device. The sensor detects a front-rear load and a moment about a vertical axis applied to the handle. The control device sets a target front-rear velocity of the body based on the front-rear load, and sets a target angular velocity of the body abo...