ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,278, issued on March 3, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).
"Balance bike" was invented by Shota Matsuzaki (Akashi, Japan) and Masato Kogirima (Akashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a balance bike including: a front wheel and a rear wheel; a head portion steerably holding the front wheel; a main frame including a front frame extending rearward from the head portion while being inclined downward and a rear frame extending rearward from a rear end of the front frame at an angle closer to a horizontal direction than a direction in which the front frame extends, the main frame connecting the hea...