US Patent Issued to Magline on March 3 for "Stair navigator with hydraulic brake" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,252, issued on March 3, was assigned to Magline Inc. (Standish, Mich.).

"Stair navigator with hydraulic brake" was invented by Gregory Paul Ecker (Midland, Mich.), Brandon Gigliotti (Midland, Mich.), Nathan Charles Vigneaux (Bay City, Mich.), Connor Jacob Jacoby (Unionville, Mich.), Dylan Ricky (Gladwin, Mich.), Zachariah Tyler Morris (Chesterfield, Mich.) and Chad D. Winters (Bay City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved hand truck having a stair navigator and brake system. The system includes a stair track, or stair navigator, having improved features allowing for the hand truck to navigate stairs more easily. The stai...