ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,349, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Saddle-ride type vehicle" was invented by Takeshi Kashihara (Akashi, Japan), Taro Iwamoto (Akashi, Japan) and Hirokazu Kohara (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a saddle-ride type vehicle including: a vehicle body; a camera attached to the vehicle body; a recorder main body including a storage medium that stores imaging information captured by the camera; and a cover member detachably attached to the vehicle body as an exterior component and covering at least an access portion to the storage medium in the recorder main body whe...