ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,872, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Kensuke Kamada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, including: a pair of front wheels; a pair of rear wheels; a saddle-style seat, positioned at an intermediate region in a width direction of the vehicle; a steering shaft provided ahead of the seat; a bar handle connected with an upper portion of the steering shaft, the bar handle having a pair of grips; a front fender provided above the pair of front wheels, striding over the pair of front wheels in a plan view of the ve...