ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,333, issued on March 24, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Battery-powered dolly" was invented by Kouichi Takeda (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-powered dolly in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a handle, a connector, a motor, a wheel, a detector, a rotation information acquirer and a controller. The controller stops supplying an electric power from a battery to the motor based on (i) a battery current value and/or a battery voltage value detected by the detector and (ii) a rotation information acquired by the rotation information acquirer."

The patent was filed on March 13, 2023, under...