ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,688, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and control unit for operating a motorcycle" was invented by Daniel Moriarty (Glenroy, Australia), Jiawei Liao (Clayton, Australia), Matthew Peters (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Simeon Bain (Montmorency, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motorcycle. In the method, distance information is provided if a time gap between the motorcycle and a vehicle in a rear area of the motorcycle is smaller than a predefined time value."

The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/417,645.

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