First Honda announced its E-clutch at EICMA. Then BMW revealed its Automated Shift Assist technology, eliminating the clutch lever in favor of twist-and-go riding or semi-auto shifting. Now it appears that Yamaha is also preparing to debut similar technology for its CP2 engine—and that means we’ll probably see it in the Tenere 700.

Patents revealed by Ben Purvis at Cycle World show Yamaha is working on new driveline technology that removes the shift lever from bikes equipped with the CP2 engine. That’s the 689 cc parallel twin used in the MT-07, Tracer 700, R7 and Tenere 700. Note that the patent drawings show the new design only installed on the R7, but it will almost certainly spread across the lineup as an option.

The patent drawings show Yamaha including two actuators on the CP2 engine; one controls the clutch, the other controls the shifter. There’s no shift lever (unlike the Honda E-clutch and BMW designs) and no clutch lever (BMW’s ASA has no clutch lever, but the Honda E-clutch design does, the DCT doesn’t). A set of buttons on the left handlebar switchgear are all that’s needed to shift up and down through the gearbox.

Parsing through the patent paperwork, Purvis also suggests the design may allow for twist-and-go riding, with no shifting required on the rider’s part. However, Yamaha has made no official reveal or tease of the technology to tell us either way.

But it seems the floodgates are open. While all OEMs have had quickshifters available for years, they’ve mostly eschewed auto-shifting. Now, for whatever reason—a change in customers, or a desire to add margin to their MSRPs—it looks like clutchless shifting will be available in a quickly-widening field of bikes in the years ahead.