ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,622, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHINMAYWA INDUSTRIES LTD. (Takarazuka, Japan).
"Passenger boarding bridge" was invented by Wataru Shimomori (Takarazuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a passenger boarding bridge that includes: a rotunda connected to a terminal building and supported in a horizontally rotatable manner; a tunnel unit whose proximal end is connected to the rotunda, the tunnel unit being extendable and retractable; a travel device that supports the tunnel unit and includes travel wheels, the travel device being configured such that a travel direction of forward travel of the travel wheels and ...