ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,276, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Step device and straddle type vehicle" was invented by Kenta Bando (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Komura (Tokyo) and Hikaru Hirashima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a step device (16) provided in a straddle type vehicle (10), comprising: a step (20) for an occupant of the straddle type vehicle (10) to put a foot on; and a holder (30) including a bracket (31) to which the step (20) is attached, wherein the bracket (31) includes two support portions (32) extending to sandwich the step (20) and rotatably supporting the step (20), and a base p...