ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,864, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Saddle ride type vehicle" was invented by Tsubasa Nose (Tokyo), Kiyotaka Sakai (Tokyo), Atsushi Ogahara (Tokyo), Chikashi Iizuka (Tokyo) and Masaki Nakagawara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saddle-ride vehicle with improved operability when an attitude of the vehicle changes in the opposite direction in a vehicle width direction in a short period of time. The saddle-ride vehicle includes: a steering actuator that applies torque in a steering direction to a suspension supporting a steering wheel; first detector that detects a roll angular velocity of a vehic...