US Patent Issued to PERMOBIL, PERMOBIL on Aug. 25 for "Knee support assembly for a wheelchair" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,615, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PERMOBIL AB (Sundsvall, Sweden) and PERMOBIL INC. (Lebanon, Tenn.).

"Knee support assembly for a wheelchair" was invented by Niklas Ytterstrom (Sundsvall, Sweden), Duane Niemeyer (Aviston, Ill.), Howard Winn (Milwaukee) and Craig Culver (Neosho, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knee support assembly for a wheelchair includes a knee support configured to be mounted to the wheelchair, the knee support including a flexible harness connected to and pivotably suspended between a first harness holder and a second harness holder, wherein the flexible harness includes a first strap, a second strap...