US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Dec. 16 for "Bicycle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,129, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Bicycle" was invented by Tomoyuki Higashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Mitsuharu Hasumi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Moriguchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle includes a vehicle-body frame, a front wheel that is a steered wheel, a rear wheel, a crankshaft, a pedal, a transmission to transmit rotation of the pedal to the rear wheel, a motor to apply at least a torque to cause rearward rotation of at least one of the front wheel or the rear wheel, a roll detector to detect at least one of a roll angle or a roll angular velocity of the veh...