ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,461, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Assistance device and straddle type vehicle" was invented by Toraki Iwamaru (Tokyo), Ryo Takechi (Tokyo) and Ko Hosokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention can realize a relatively simple parking operation of a straddle type vehicle. The present invention is related to an assistance device that assists an operation of a straddle type vehicle, the assistance device comprising acquisition means for acquiring steering angle information indicating a steering angle of the straddle type vehicle and inclination angle information indicating an inc...