US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on July 29 for "Straddled vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,119, issued on July 29, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Straddled vehicle" was invented by Toshihiro Nakajima (Shizuoka, Japan), Takehiro Shimizu (Shizuoka, Japan), Shogo Ishida (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuhiko Isayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsutoshi Satoh (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Kamo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A straddled vehicle, including a head pipe, a main frame extending rearward from the head pipe, a fuel tank supported by the main frame, an air cleaner arranged in front of the fuel tank, a side cover formed on a lateral side of the fuel tank to partially overlap the fuel tank in a si...