US Patent Issued to Motion Advantage Verwaltungs-GmbH on May 12 for "Muscle-powered wheelchair and method for controlling an auxiliary drive for same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,827, issued on May 12, was assigned to Motion Advantage Verwaltungs-GmbH (Germany).

"Muscle-powered wheelchair and method for controlling an auxiliary drive for same" was invented by Harald Kauffmann (Balingen, Germany) and Thomas Birmanns (Balingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheelchair having at least one force element that is elastically deformable, wherein deformation of the at least one force element becomes more and more intense with the application of increasing force, resulting in natural damping of the coupled-in force, which may be detected by a sensor such that the wheelchair according to the invention may be ...