ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,484, issued on May 5, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan) and ROBERT BOSCH GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Straddle vehicle" was invented by Hiroaki Amano (Akashi, Japan), Tomoaki Saio (Yokohama, Japan) and Gen Okuzuka (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorcycle includes a brake lamp, a brake operation unit, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, and a brake controller. The first switching unit switches a circuit state so that a driving current is supplied to the brake lamp while the brake operation is being performed. The second switching unit switches the circuit state between a closed state in...