US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 25 for "Headlight device and leaning vehicle including headlight device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,091, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Headlight device and leaning vehicle including headlight device" was invented by Yumi Kimura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takehiro Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlight device including a headlight configured to emit light frontward of a leaning vehicle to form a lower light beam, an upper central light beam, an upper left light beam and an upper right light beam, and a control device that controls light emission from the headlight without any user operation. The control device forms both the upper left and the upper right light beam...