ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,412, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Utility vehicle" was invented by Jun Takagi (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a traveling drive source, a mount bracket for mounting the traveling drive source on the vehicle body frame, and a related component connected to the traveling drive source. The related component is supported by the mount bracket."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/992,394.

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