ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,272, issued on May 6, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Off-road vehicle" was invented by Takashi Hisamura (Akashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road vehicle includes a vehicle body frame 1 and a ROPS 2 coupled to the vehicle body frame 1. The ROPS 2 has a front-rear frame 3 extending substantially in a front-rear direction, a vehicle width frame 4 extending substantially in a vehicle width direction, and brackets 6 coupling the front-rear frame 3 and the vehicle width frame 4 to each other."
The patent was filed on July 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/354,699.
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