US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,021, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Tatsuya Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masahiro Yoshida (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a pair of front wheel; a pair of rear wheels; a saddle-style seat positioned at an intermediate region in a width direction of the vehicle; a steering shaft positioned ahead of the seat; a radiator positioned more forward than the steering shaft; an air intake portion having an air intake port, which is positioned more rearward than the steering shaft; a drive shaft provided at a lower position than the steeri...