ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,079, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KTM AG (Mattighofen, Austria).
"Single-track vehicle" was invented by Torbjoern Gustafson (Berndorf bei Salzburg, Austria) and Hannes Fellner (Zipf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-track vehicle, in particular a motorcycle, includes a frame, a rocker rotatable relative to the frame, and a leaf spring connected to the frame and to the rocker to achieve a spring effect between the rocker and the frame. The leaf spring is connected to the frame via a first lever and a first rotary bearing such that a first rotational axis of the first rotary bearing is transversely offset relative ...