US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on July 14 for "Bicycle frame with vibration isolation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,493, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Bicycle frame with vibration isolation" was invented by Michael Paul Rowe (Pinckney, Mich.), Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle can include a frame. The frame can include a front steering axle, a front fork assembly, and a handlebar assembly for steering a front wheel of the bicycle. The bicycle can also include one or more vibration isolators. The one or more vibration isolators can be operativ...