ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,428, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Lean vehicle" was invented by Keizo Araki (Kariya, Japan) and Akira Mizuno (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lean vehicle includes: a plurality of wheel units provided at least at a front position and a rear position of a vehicle body and each including a pair of wheels spaced apart in a vehicle width direction; a lean unit provided in a vicinity of one of the wheel units and including a lean mechanism configured to relatively tilt the wheel unit and the vehicle body with respect to a ground in a turning inward direction and a lean drive unit configure...