ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,039, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Masaki Goto (Saitama, Japan), Tomokazu Sakamoto (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Kimura (Saitama, Japan) and Kazumasa Ozaki (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 in the vehicle body frame and movable on a road surface; a seat, arranged above the vehicle body frame and supporting buttocks of a user; a lifting device, provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat and lifting or lowering the seat between a low position and a high position; a position specifier, provided ...