ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,975, issued on May 26, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Electric passenger transport vehicle" was invented by Daisuke Saeki (Lincoln, Neb.), Kazumasa Hisada (Lincoln, Neb.), Takuya Ito (Akashi, Japan) and Tomotaka Nakagawa (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric passenger transport vehicle according an embodiment may include: a vehicle body including a floor, a first seat base, a second seat base provided on a rear side of the first seat base; a first seat including a first seat bottom attached to an upper surface of the first seat base; and a second seat including a second seat bottom attached ...