ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. D1,131,290, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki K.K. (Japan).

"Motorcycle" was invented by Kohei Sakata (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Frederik Vanden Borre (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Benjamin Goudout (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kentaro Mizumoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Takuma Kanzaki (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shogo Ito (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Tejas Purohit (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kaichiro Yamamoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kosuke Yasui (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Chikako Kaneko (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Nozomi Miura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2024, under Application No. D/970,693.

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