US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on March 17 for "Screen for saddle-riding vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,933, issued on March 17, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Screen for saddle-riding vehicle" was invented by Hirotaka Kato (Hyogo, Japan) and Kohei Akita (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen is attached to the saddle riding vehicle to face forward with respect to the saddle-riding vehicle, and permits passage of incoming air while preventing passage of foreign objects. The screen includes: a plurality of vertical fins extending in a vertical direction and arranged next to one another in a vehicle widthwise direction; and a lower fin connecting lower ends of the vertical fins and inclined downward...