ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,132, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).
"Leaning vehicle" was invented by Shidehiko Miyashiro (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsutoshi Satoh (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takehisa Katsura (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leaning vehicle including a body frame that has a head pipe and a frame member extending rearward from the head pipe, a suspension plate attached to the frame member, and a drive source attached to the suspension plate. The suspension plate includes a first plate and a second plate stacked together in a left-right direction of the leaning vehicle. A dimension of the first plate in ...