US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle including a drive unit and a seat provided on the drive unit via a lift unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,188, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle including a drive unit and a seat provided on the drive unit via a lift unit" was invented by Wataru Yada (Saitama, Japan) and Daisuke Nohara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a drive unit provided on the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor surface; a seat disposed above the vehicle body frame; a lift unit to raise and lower the seat between a low position and a high position; a first leg extending downward from the seat and provided with a roller at a lower end thereof; a second leg extending do...