US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on April 15 for "Straddled vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,477, issued on April 15, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Straddled vehicle" was invented by Tomohiro Kawabata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masami Sudayama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A straddled vehicle including a body frame having a head pipe, a front cover in front of the head pipe, an exterior cover laterally covering the body frame, a fuel tank disposed behind the head pipe, an air cleaner disposed directly below the fuel tank, a duct disposed between the front cover and the head pipe and extending from an opening in the front cover, and a wind guide cover disposed between the head pipe and the...