US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on June 17 for "Saddle-riding vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,737, issued on June 17, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Japan).

"Saddle-riding vehicle" was invented by Satoshi Morotomi (Kobe, Japan) and Keisuke Ishiyama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saddle-riding vehicle includes: a canister in front of an engine and on one lateral side of a vehicle body in a vehicle widthwise direction with respect to a center axis of the vehicle body in the vehicle widthwise direction, the center axis extending in a front-to-rear direction; and an accessory stay extending in a vertical direction from a main frame that supports the engine. The canister has an elongate shape in a longitudina...