ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,364, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Straddle vehicle and vehicle control method" was invented by Rui Fukuoka (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a straddle vehicle and a method for controlling a vehicle. A processing circuitry of the straddle vehicle is configured to: determine whether a control mode or a low-speed mode; determine whether a user operation is a forward traveling operation or a backward traveling operation when being determined that the control mode is the low-speed mode; change a rotation speed or an output torque of an electric motor of the strad...