US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on March 25 for "Off-road vehicle, reinforcing frame, and method for transporting off-road vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,969, issued on March 25, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Off-road vehicle, reinforcing frame, and method for transporting off-road vehicle" was invented by Takashi Hisamura (Akashi, Japan), Naoki Kawaguchi (Akashi, Japan) and Yuji Yokoyama (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame to which a roll-over protection structure (ROPS) is detachably attachable; and a reinforcing frame that is detachably attachable to the vehicle body frame instead of the ROPS. The vehicle body frame includes a first vehicle body frame located forward of a driver's seat, and a seco...