US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Jan. 20 for "Straddled vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,553, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Straddled vehicle" was invented by Yuya Ozaki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shidehiko Miyashiro (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A straddled vehicle including: a vehicle body frame having a head pipe and a down frame extending downward and rearward from the head pipe; a steering shaft rotatably inserted in the head pipe; a front fork linked to the steering shaft, the front fork including an outer tube and an inner tube that is slidably inserted in the outer tube; a bottom bridge linking the front fork and a portion of the steering shaft that is down...