MUMBAI, India, May 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414079190 A) filed by Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, Japan, on Oct. 18, 2024, for 'straddled vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Kazuya Eguchi.

The application for the patent was published on May 9, under issue no. 19/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A straddled vehicle includes a bottom-neutral type transmission (13), a power source (11), a clutch (12, 52), a gear-shifting manipulation member (13a, 21), a shift direction indicator (15), and a control device (14), the shift direction indicator (15) including both an upward direction indicator (15U) and a downward direction indicator (15D), the sh...