ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,745, issued on May 12, was assigned to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC. (Valcourt, Canada).
"All-terrain vehicle" was invented by Sacha Bouchard (Sherbrooke, Canada), Pascal Toupin (Sherbrooke, Canada), Simon Filion (Granby, Canada), Remi Breton (Drummondville, Canada) and Marc Schuler (Sherbrooke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-terrain vehicle (ATV) has a frame having front and rear ends, an internal combustion engine connected to the frame, the engine including a front portion and a rear portion, a single cylinder defining a cylinder axis, an air intake port defined in the front portion facing towards the front en...