US Patent Issued to PIAGGIO & C. on Oct. 6 for "Tilting saddle motor vehicle with lightened rolling four-bar linkage" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,874, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A. (Pontedera, Italy).

"Tilting saddle motor vehicle with lightened rolling four-bar linkage" was invented by Walter Rosellini (Pontedera, Italy), Jacopo Roncoroni (Pontedera, Italy) and Emanuele Savino (Pontedera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilting motor vehicle having a pair of steering front wheels (17A, 17B), linked to the frame (3) of the motor vehicle (1) through a rolling four-bar linkage (21). The rolling four-bar linkage comprises an upper crosspiece (23) and a lower crosspiece (25) linked to each other by uprights (27A, 27B) forming the rocker arms of the fo...