ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,328, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zhejiang Shimo technology Co.Ltd (Jinhua City, China).
"Electric stepper" was invented by Xiong Wang (Jinhua City, China), Jiawu Zhang (Jinhua City, China) and Hua Wang (Jinhua City, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric step, including a chassis, a housing, a motor, and two pedals. The housing is fixedly arranged on the chassis. A horizontal central shaft is fixedly arranged in the housing. Each of both ends of the central shaft is arranged with a turntable. An inner end of each pedal is arranged on a corresponding turntable. An axis of the pedal deviates from an axis of the central...