ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,290, issued on June 30, was assigned to LOCHER PIPER & PARTNER GMBH (Aarau, Switzerland).

"Foldable devices for transporting loads" was invented by Marian Piper (Valdes, Spain) and Francois Locher (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a foldable device (3000) for transporting loads, the foldable device comprising: a first platform (3200); a running gear (3100), the running gear comprising a plurality of arms (3110) and a plurality of wheels (3130), each of the plurality of arms being rotatably coupled to the first platform and at least one of the plurality of wheels; and a device for aligning the plurality o...