ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,586, issued on July 15, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).
"Headlight device and leaning vehicle" was invented by Takehiro Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Kamo (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takahiro Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlight device includes a headlight and a control device. The headlight includes a plurality of light sources that is configured to light one or more left oblique areas located in the ahead-driving direction of the leaning vehicle on the left, one or more right oblique areas located in the ahead-driving direction of the leaning vehicle on the right, and one or more low...