US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 24 for "Vehicle transmission and vehicle having the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,541, issued on March 24, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Vehicle transmission and vehicle having the same" was invented by Tomomi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle transmission, including: a drive shaft configured to receive a shifted torque; a middle shaft arranged in parallel to the drive shaft; a first bearing that rotatably supports the drive shaft; a second bearing that rotatably supports the middle shaft; a first middle gear attached to a portion of the drive shaft that is on a further distal side of the drive shaft than is the first bearing; and a second middle gear attach...