US Patent Issued to Pride Mobility Products on Aug. 4 for "Elevated height wheelchair" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,259, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pride Mobility Products Corp. (Duryea, Pa.).

"Elevated height wheelchair" was invented by James P. Mulhern (Nanticoke, Pa.) and Stephen J. Antonishak (Nanticoke, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a wheelchair configured to reposition an occupant between a lowered and a raised position. The wheelchair can include a frame, a seat moveable relative to the frame, a drive wheel, one or more pairs of arm assemblies, and one or more sensors. The arm assembly includes a wheel configured to move from a first spatial location when the wheelchair is operating on flat, level ...