ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,553, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, suspension system, and saddle-type vehicle" was invented by Kentaro Matsubara (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a reference unit, a correction unit, and a target setting unit. The correction unit sets a reference correction current serving as a reference in determining the correction current to 0 in an extremely low velocity range of a change velocity of a stroke amount, sets the reference correction current to a predetermined steady-state value in a medium and ...