ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,086, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, vehicle, estimation method, and storage medium" was invented by Yohei Kawasaki (Tokyo), Yosuke Wada (Tokyo) and Shunichi Miyagishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control device that controls a suspension mechanism of a straddle type vehicle, comprising: a wheel speed sensor configured to detect a wheel speed of the straddle type vehicle; an estimation unit configured to estimate a stroke speed of the suspension mechanism, based on a change in the wheel speed detected by the wheel speed sensor; and a correctio...