US Patent Issued to MAGNA Automotive Europe on May 26 for "Cargo two-wheeler" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,165, issued on May 26, was assigned to MAGNA Automotive Europe GmbH (Vienna).

"Cargo two-wheeler" was invented by Gerd Schlager (Kefermarkt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo bicycle for transporting a load via a rider. The cargo bicycle includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, a load bed arranged between the front wheel and the rear wheel, a rider seat; and a crank to facilitate the driving of the cargo bicycle by the rider, the crank having, in a longitudinal direction of the cargo bicycle, a crank axis arranged in substantially a same longitudinal position as a rear wheel axis of the rear wheel and away from the load bed....